REPLY1850
The Title of D.D
By EYE-SNUFF.
The remarks of your correspondent "BROWN RAPPEE" (Vol. I. p. 438.) induced me to turn to the List of the Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries, and I find it in my power to exonerate the compiler of the list on one point from the carelessness he imputes. "BROWN RAPPEE" says, "We see one or two D.D.'s deprived of their titles of 'Rev.'" I find but one D.D. in that condition, and in that instance the list is correct, and the usual prefix would have been an error; the gentleman in question *not* being in orders, although his services in Biblical literature have been acknowledged with the degree o…
Topics: Biblical Literature, Academic Distinctions, Theology