The 2025 Elson Ethics Lecture was given by
The Reverend Canon Dr Hueston Finlay
on Tuesday, 11th November
Is it True that there is Truth?
Dr Hueston Finlay, Warden – St George’s House, Vice-Dean – The College of St George
Hueston read Engineering and Theology at Trinity College, Dublin and pursued his doctoral studies at the University of London. Following ordination, he worked in the cathedral parish of St Canice in the County of Kilkenny, where he undertook the duties of Bishop’s Vicar, Diocesan Librarian and Diocesan Registrar. While there he taught theology in the country’s largest boarding school and lectured on ethics and doctrine for the diocesan adult education programme. He then moved to Cambridge as Curate to the University Church and Chaplain to Girton College after which he served as Dean of Chapel, Director of Studies in Theology, and Tutor at Magdalene College Cambridge. He has also held an Affiliated Lectureship at the University of Cambridge, where he taught doctrine.
He was appointed a Canon of St George’s Chapel in 2004 and Warden of St George’s House in 2008. He currently holds an honorary research Fellowship at the University of Aberdeen where he studies Schleiermacher and Barth.
From January 2026 he will be Dean of Chapel at King’s College Cambridge.
A transcript of the Lecture is here.
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