Dunn, Robinson Potter, Dd

Dunn, Robinson Potter, D.D.

a Presbyterian minister, was born at Newport, R.I., May 31, 1825. He graduated from Brown University in 1844, with the honors of his class, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1848. He was licensed the same year, and began preaching in the First Presbyterian Church, Camden, N.J. In 1851 he was called to the chair of rhetoric and English literature in Brown University. He died at Newport, R.I., August 28, 1867; Dr. Dunn was a frequent contributor to the Princeton Review and Bibliotheca Sacra; and translated and edited one volume of Lange's Commentary on the Old Test. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1868, page 84.