| YEAR | SBL PRESIDENT | ADDRESS |
| 2024 | Tamar Cohn Eskenazi | TBD |
| 2023 | Musa W. Dube | Behold, the Global Translated Bible(s)! Research and Pedagogical Implications
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| 2022 | Adela Yarbro Collins | Ethics in Paul and Paul in Ethics
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| 2021 | James C. VanderKam | R. H. Charles and Modern Biblical Studies
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| 2020 | Adele Reinhartz | The Hermeneutics of Chutzpah: A Disquisition on the Value/s of “Critical Investigation of the Bible”
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| 2019 | Gale A. Yee | Thinking Intersectionally: Gender, Race, Class, and the Etceteras of Our Discipline
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| 2018 | Brian K. Blount | The Souls of Biblical Folks and the Potential for Meaning
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| 2017 | Michael Fox | The Meanings of the Book of Job
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| 2016 | Beverly Roberts Gaventa | Reading Romans 13 with Simone Weil: Toward a More Generous Hermeneutic
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| 2015 | Athalya Brenner-Idan | On Scholarship and Related Animals: A Personal View from and for the Here and Now
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| 2014 | Fernando F. Segovia | Criticism in Critical Times: Reflections on Vision and Task
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| 2013 | Carol L. Meyers | Was Ancient Israel a Patriarchal Society?
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| 2012 | John Dominic Crossan | A Vision of Divine Justice: The Resurrection of Jesus in Eastern Christian Iconography
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| 2011 | Carol Newsom | Models of the Moral Self: Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism
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| 2010 | Vincent L. Wimbush | Interpreters—Enslaving/ Enslaved/Runagate
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| 2009 | David J.A. Clines | Learning, Teaching, and Researching Biblical Studies,Today and Tomorrow
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| 2008 | Jonathan Z. Smith | Religion and Bible
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| 2007 | Katharine Doob Sakenfeld | Whose Text Is It?
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| 2006 | Robert Kraft | Paramania: Beside, Before, and Beyond Bible Studies
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| 2005 | Carolyn Osiek | Catholic or catholic? Biblical Scholarship at the Center
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| 2004 | David L. Petersen | Genesis and Family Values |
| 2003 | Eldon Epp | The Oxyrhynchus New Testament Papyri: “Not Without Honor Except in their Hometown”?
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| 2002 | John J. Collins | The Zeal of Phinehas: The Bible and the Legitimation of Violence
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| 2001 | Harold Attridge | Genre Bending in the Fourth Gospel
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| 2000 | Adele Berlin | The Book of Esther and Ancient Storytelling
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| 1999 | D. Moody Smith | When Did the Gospels Become Scripture?
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| 1998 | Patrick D. Miller | Deuteronomy and Psalms: Evoking a Biblical Conversation
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| 1997 | Hans Dieter Betz | Antiquity and Christianity
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| 1996 | Gene M. Tucker | Rain on a Land Where No One Lives: The Hebrew Bible on the Environment
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| 1995 | Leander E. Keck | Rethinking “New Testament Ethics”
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| 1994 | Phyllis Trible | Exegesis for Storytellers and Other Strangers
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| 1993 | Victor P. Furnish | On Putting Paul in His Place
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| 1992 | Norman K. Gottwald | Social Class as an Analytic and Hermeneutical Category in Biblical Studies
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| 1991 | Helmut Koester | Jesus the Victim
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| 1990 | Walter Brueggemann | At the Mercy of Babylon: A Subversive Rereading of the Empire
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| 1989 | Paul J. Achtemeier | Omne verbum sonat: The New Testament and the Oral Environment of Late WesternAntiquity
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| 1988 | Philip J. King | The Eighth, the Greatest of Centuries?
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| 1987 | Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza | The Ethics of Biblical Interpretation: Decentering Biblical Scholarship
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| 1986 | James L. Mays | The Place of the Torah-Psalms in the Psalter
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| 1985 | Wayne A. Meeks | Understanding Early Christian Ethics
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| 1984 | Roland E. Murphy | Wisdom and Creation
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| 1983 | Krister Stendahl | The Bible as a Classic and the Bible as Holy Scripture
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| 1982 | Lou H. Silberman | Listening to the Text
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| 1981 | James M. Robinson | Jesus from Easter to Valentinus (Or to the Apostles’ Creed)
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| 1980 | Bernhard Anderson | Tradition and Scripture in the Community of Faith
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| 1979 | Joseph A. Fitzmyer | The Aramaic Language and the Study of the New Testament
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| 1978 | James A. Sanders | Text and Canon: Concepts and Method
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| 1977 | Raymond E. Brown | “Other Sheep Not of This Fold”: The Johannine Perspective on Christian Diversity in the Late First Century
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| 1976 | David Noel Freedman | Pottery, Poetry, and Prophecy: An Essay on Biblical Poetry
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| 1975 | Robert W. Funk | The Watershed of the American Biblical Tradition: The Chicago School, First Phase, 1892-1920
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| 1974 | Frank M. Cross, Jr. | A Reconstruction of the Judean Restoration
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| 1973 | Norman Perrin | Eschatology and Hermeneutics: Reflections on Method in the Interpretation of the NewTestament
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| 1972 | Walter J. Harrelson | Title and link of address to be determined
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| 1971 | Bruce M. Metzger | Literary Forgeries and Canonical Pseudepigrapha
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| 1970 | Harry M. Orlinsky | Whither Biblical Research?
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| 1969 | Frank W. Beare | The Mission of the Disciples and the Mission Charge: Matthew 10 and Parallels
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| 1968 | James Muilenburg | Form Criticism and beyond
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| 1967 | Paul Schubert | The Final Cycle of Speeches in the Book of Acts
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| 1966 | John L. McKenzie | Reflections on Wisdom
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| 1965 | Kenneth W. Clark | The Theological Relevance of Textual Variation in Current Criticism of the Greek New Testament
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| 1964 | Fred V. Winnett | Re-Examining the Foundations
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| 1963 | John Knox | Romans 15:14-33 and Paul’s Conception of His Apostolic Mission
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| 1962 | Herbert G. May | Cosmological Reference in the Qumran Doctrine of the Two Spirits and in Old Testament Imagery
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| 1961 | Samuel Sandmel | Parallelomania
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| 1960 | R. B. Y. Scott | Priesthood, Prophecy, Wisdom, and the Knowledge of God
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| 1959 | Robert M. Grant | Two Gnostic Gospels
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| 1958 | William A. Irwin | A Still Small Voice … Said, What Are You Doing Here?
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| 1957 | Sherman E. Johnson | Early Christianity in Asia Minor
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| 1956 | J. Philip Hyatt | The Dead Sea Discoveries: Retrospect and Challenge
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| 1955 | Amos N. Wilder | Scholars, Theologians, and Ancient Rhetoric
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| 1954 | Millar Burrows | Thy Kingdom Come
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| 1953 | S. Vernon McCasland | The Unity of the Scriptures
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| 1952 | Sheldon Blank | Men against God: The Promethean Element in Biblical Prayer
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| 1951 | Erwin R. Goodenough | The Inspiration of New Testament Research
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| 1950 | Robert H. Pfeiffer | Facts and Faith in Biblical History
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| 1949 | Floyd V. Filson | Method in Studying Biblical History
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| 1948 | John W. Flight | No address delivered
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| 1947 | Ernest Cadman Colwell | Biblical Criticism: Lower and Higher
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| 1946 | Leroy Waterman | Biblical Studies in a New Setting
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| 1945 | Morton Scott Enslin | The Future of Biblical Studies
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| 1944 | Theophile James Meek | The Syntax of the Sentence in Hebrew
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| 1943 | Kirsopp Lake | No address delivered
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| 1942 | Kirsopp Lake | No address delivered
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| 1941 | Julian Morgenstern | The Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis
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| 1940 | Chester C. McCown | Gospel Geography: Fiction, Fact, and Truth
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| 1939 | William F. Albright | The Ancient Near East and the Religion of Israel
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| 1938 | Wm. Henry Paine Hatch | The Primitive Christian Message
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| 1937 | George Dahl | The Messianic Expectation in the Psalter
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| 1936 | Henry J. Cadbury | Motives of Biblical Scholarship
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| 1935 | Elihu Grant | The Philistines
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| 1934 | Frederick C. Grant | The Spiritual Christ
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| 1933 | James Moffatt | The Sacred Book in Religion
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| 1932 | J. M. Powis Smith | The Character of King David
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| 1931 | Burton Scott Easton | New Testament Ethical Lists
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| 1930 | William Frederic Badè | Ceramics and History in Palestine
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| 1929 | James E. Frame | Paul’s Idea of Deliverance
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| 1928 | Loring Woart Batten | Hosea’s Message and Marriage
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| 1927 | Irving F. Wood | The Contribution of the Bible to the History of Religion
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| 1926 | Shirley Jackson Case | The Alleged Messianic Consciousness of Jesus
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| 1925 | Julius A. Bewer | The Hellenistic Mystery Religion and the Old Testament
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| 1924 | Clayton R. Bowen | Why Eschatology?
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| 1923 | Max L. Margolis | Our Own Future: Forecast and a Programme
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| 1922 | William R. Arnold | Observations on the Origins of Holy Scripture
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| 1921 | Kemper Fullerton | Viewpoints in the Discussion of Isaiah’s Hopes for the Future
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| 1920 | Albert T. Clay | A Recent Journey through Babylonia and Assyria
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| 1919 | Edgar J. Goodspeed | The Origin of Acts
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| 1918 | James A. Montgomery | Present Tasks of American Biblical Scholarship
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| 1917 | Warren J. Moulton | The Dating of the Synoptic Gospels
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| 1916 | Morris Jastrow Jr. | Constructive Elements in the Critical Study of the Old Testament
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| 1915 | Charles Cutler Torrey | The Need of a New Edition of the Hebrew Bible
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| 1914 | Nathaniel Schmidt | The Story of the Food and the Growth of the Pentateuch
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| 1913 | George A. Barton | The Hermeneutic Canon “Interpret Historically” in the Light of Modern Research: Presidential Address at the Annual Meeting, Dec. 29, 1913
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| 1912 | Lewis B. Paton | Israel’s Conquest of Canaan: Presidential Address at the Annual Meeting, Dec. 27, 1912
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| 1911 | Ernest de Witt Burton | Some Phases of the Synoptic Problem: Presidential Address, 1911
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| 1910 | David G. Lyon | On the Archaeological Exploration of Palestine: Presidential Address, 1910
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| 1909 | Henry Preserved Smith | Old Testament Ideals: Presidential Address, 1909
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| 1908 | Frank Chamberlain Porter | The Bearing of Historical Studies on the Religious Use of the Bible
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| 1907 | James Hardy Ropes | The Epistle to the Hebrews
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| 1906 | Paul Haupt | The Book of Nahum
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| 1905 | William Rainey Harper | No address delivered
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| 1904 | Willis J. Beecher | Torah: A Word-Study in the Old Testament
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| 1903 | Richard J. H. Gottheil | Some Early Jewish Bible Criticism: Annual Presidential Address to the Society of BiblicalLiterature and Exegesis
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| 1902 | Benjamin W. Bacon | Ultimate Problems of Biblical Science: Annual Presidential Address to the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis
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| 1901 | Edward Y. Hincks | Some Tendencies and Results of Recent New Testament Study
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| 1900 | John P. Peters | The Religion of Moses
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| 1899 | George F. Moore | The Age of the Jewish Canon of Hagiographa
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| 1898 | George F. Moore | Jewish Historical Literature
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| 1897 | Edward T. Bartlett | No address found
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| 1896 | Edward T.Bartlett | Old Testament Problems
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| 1895 | Francis Brown | The Historical Element in the New Testament
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| 1895 | J. Henry Thayer | The Historical Element in the New Testament
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| 1894 | J. Henry Thayer | No address delivered
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| 1893 | Talbot W. Chambers | No address delivered
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| 1892 | Talbot W. Chambers | On the Function of the Prophet
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| 1891 | Charles A. Briggs | No address found
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| 1890 | Francis Brown | No address found
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| 1889 | Frederic Gardiner | No address found
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| 1888 | Frederic Gardiner | No address found
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| 1887 | Frederic Gardiner | No address found
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| 1886 | Daniel Raynes Goodwin | No address found
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| 1885 | Daniel Raynes Goodwin | No address found
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| 1884 | Daniel Raynes Goodwin | No address found
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| 1883 | Daniel Raynes Goodwin | No address found
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| 1882 | Daniel Raynes Goodwin | No address found
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| 1881 | Daniel Raynes Goodwin | No address found
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| 1880 | Daniel Raynes Goodwin | No address found |
