page_title: F. J. Foakes-Jackson
section_title: Professor at Union Theological Seminary
hierarchical_section_title: F. J. Foakes-Jackson / Professor at Union Theological Seminary
caption_attribution_description: English: Union Theological Seminary, Claremont Ave. &amp; 122nd St., New York City, in 1910.
context_page_description: Frederick John Foakes Jackson was a Church historian. For thirty-four years he taught at Jesus College, Cambridge, serving as dean from 1895 to 1916. Then, at the age of 61, he became the Briggs Professor of Christian Institutions at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, finally becoming emeritus in 1933. He is probably best known for the massive five volume work The Beginnings of Christianity—an edition, translation, commentary, and study of the Acts of Apostles—that he conceived and edited with Kirsopp Lake.
context_section_description: In 1916 Foakes-Jackson travelled to the United States to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston.  While there he was offered and accepted a position as Charles A. Briggs graduate professor of Christian institutions at Union Theological Seminary, New York City.  He held that position until 1933, finally becoming emeritus that year.  The reason for the move may be due in part to his failing to become the Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, which went instead to Vincent Henry Stanton that year (1916).  With the burden of college teaching removed, he was able to concentrate on his writing; thus, most of his books were published while at Union.  He was a lecturer at the Jewish Institute of Religion, 1924–27, and at the General Theological Seminary, 1925–26. In 1933 he was awarded a D. Théol. from the University of Strasbourg, France, and in 1935 a Litt. D. from the University of the South.  He was a fellow of the Royal Historical Society (F.R.Hist.S.), fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (F.R.L.S.), honorary correspondent of the Institut Historique et Héraldique de France, and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  Foakes-Jackson married Anna Maria Everett, daughter of George Grimwade Everett of Hadleigh, Suffolk, in 1895.  She died in 1931.  The next year he married Clara Fawcett, widow of Arthur Jackson Tomlinson of New York.  There were no children from either marriage.   He died in Englewood, New Jersey, 1 December 1941.
caption: Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York in 1910
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