James Oswald Dykes studied at
Dumfries Academy and at the universities of
Edinburgh,
Heidelberg, and
Erlangen. He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1859. Dykes was appointed principal and Barbour Professor of Divinity of the Theological College of the
Presbyterian Church of England, now
Westminster College, Cambridge, from 1888 to 1907.
Cambridge University awarded him an honorary MA in 1900. In June 1901, he received an honorary
doctorate of divinity from the
University of Glasgow. He died on 1 January 1912 and is buried on the eastern side of
Highgate Cemetery. ==Works==