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Reverend Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Bishop Designate of Durham, 1880. Lightfoot became the bishop of Durham in 1879. For a period of ten years he was a member of the New Testament Company of Revisers. Their Revised New Testament caused a public outcry when published. He was a strong advocate of the founding of a university in Liverpool because of the size of the population, and in 1880 the Liverpool University College was founded.