Godfrey Rolles Driver

Godfrey Rolles Driver
Godfrey Rolles Driver
Born	20 August 1892
Died	22 April 1975 (aged 82)
Occupation	Biblical scholar
Parent(s)	Samuel Rolles Driver ;
Awards	Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1958); Fellow of the British Academy (1939); Burkitt Medal (1953); Military Cross; Leverhulme Medal (1939) ;
Position held	chair (1938–), chair (1953–1959)

Sir Godfrey Rolles Driver CBE MC FBA (20 August 1892 – 22 April 1975), known as G. R. Driver, was an English Orientalist noted for his studies of Semitic languages and Assyriology. His father was considered the "most distinguished British Hebraist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries".