John Massie

John Massie (3 December 1842 – 11 November 1925)[1] was a British academic, educationalist and Liberal Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cricklade from 1906 to 1910.

He was educated at Atherstone Grammar School, Warwickshire, and at St John's College, Cambridge.

In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classics at Spring Hill Theological College in Birmingham, and stayed there for 17 years until the institution was moved to Mansfield College, Oxford, where he was appointed the Yates Professor of New Testament Exegesis.

[2] He was a committed supporter of Disestablishmentarianism and was President of the Liberation Society which campaigned for the removal of state patronage and control from schools.

[4] In 1910 he was re-elected to the executive of the National Liberal Federation and sat on that body until his death.