Godfrey Rolles Driver

Godfrey Rolles Driver
Godfrey Rolles Driver
Born	20 August 1892
Died	22 April 1975 (aged 82)
Parent(s)	Samuel Rolles Driver ;
Awards	Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1958); Fellow of the British Academy (1939); Burkitt Medal (1953); Military Cross; Leverhulme Medal (1939) ;
Position held	chair (Society for Old Testament Study, 1938–), chair (International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, 1953–1959)

Sir Godfrey Rolles Driver CBE MC FBA (20 August 1892 – 22 April 1975), known as G. R. Driver, was an English Orientalist noted for his studies of Semitic languages and Assyriology.^[1] His father was considered the "most distinguished British Hebraist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries".^[2]

^ J. A. Emerton, 'Driver, Sir Godfrey Rolles (1892–1975)'. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
^ Emerton 2016, pp. 345.

[1] J. A. Emerton, 'Driver, Sir Godfrey Rolles (1892–1975)'. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.

[FOOTNOTEEmerton2016345-2] Emerton 2016, pp. 345.

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