| AdminHistory | Rendel James Harris (1852-1941) became closely associated with George and Elizabeth Cadbury through his work as Director of Studies at Woodbrooke, the Quaker college founded by the Cadburys in 1903 in the house and grounds of their former home in Selly Oak. Harris, a biblical scholar and palaeographer, had worked as a lecturer and researcher at Clare College Cambridge and John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. After converting to Quakerism in 1880, Harris became Professor of Biblical Languages and Literature at Haverford College in Pennsylvania in 1885. He returned to Cambridge as a lecturer in palaeography in 1893 before being appointed Director of Studies at Woodbrooke in 1903. Harris left Woodbrooke in 1918 to become Curator of Eastern Manuscripts at the John Rylands Library in Manchester. Throughout his career Harris published many books based on his work with early Biblical manuscripts. He retired to Selly Oak in Birmingham in 1925. |