Henry Charles Beeching (15 May 1859 – 25 February 1919)[1] was a British clergyman, writer and poet, who was Dean of Norwich from 1911 to 1919.[2]
Henry Charles Beeching | |
|---|---|
| Dean of Norwich | |
 Henry Charles Beeching, 1900s–1910s | |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Diocese | Norwich |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 May 1859 |
| Died | 25 February 1919 (aged 59) |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
Biography
editH. C. Beeching was born on 15 May 1859 in Sussex, the son of J. P. G. Beeching of Bexhill.[3] He was educated at the City of London School and at Balliol College, Oxford.[4][5] He took holy orders in 1882, and began work in a Liverpool parish at Mossley Hill.[6] He was Rector of Yattendon from 1885 to 1900; Clark Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1900; professor of Pastoral Theology at King's College London from 1900 to 1903; Chaplain of Lincoln's Inn from 1900 to 1903;[7] Canon of Westminster Abbey from October 1902 until 1911[8][9] and Dean of Norwich from 1911 until his death.[10] He wrote a book on Francis Atterbury.[11] To him is attributed the popular epigram on Benjamin Jowett:
- First come I; my name is Jowett.
- There's no knowledge but I know it.
- I am master of this college:
- What I don't know isn't knowledge.[12]
This is the first verse of The Masque of B-ll—l (1880), a scurrilous undergraduate production in 40 verses satirising Balliol figures. It was suppressed at the time. Later research has given Beeching credit for 19 of the verses.[citation needed]
Works
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Beeching (right) with Bowyer Nichols and J. W. Mackail, by Frederick Hollyer, c. 1882 - Love's Looking Glass (1892) with J. W. Mackail and J. B. B. Nichols
- A Paradise of English Poetry (1893), an anthology of English poets
- Pages from a Private Diary (1898), originally published anonymously
- "The Character of Shakespeare". Proceedings of the British Academy, 1917–1918. 8: 157–179.
Notes
edit- ^ F. P. Sprent, ‘Beeching, Henry Charles (1859–1919)’, rev. H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 18 Jan 2016
- ^ The Spectator
- ^ Beeching H, Hymnary.org. Retrieved 2 May 2017
- ^ ‘BEECHING, Very Rev. Henry Charles’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 18 Jan 2016
- ^ 'UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE' Daily News (London, England), Tuesday, 29 June 1880; Issue 10670
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1908: London Horace Cox, 1908
- ^ "No. 27487". The London Gazette. 24 October 1902. p. 6734.
- ^ Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Saturday, 25 October 1902; pg. 9; Issue 36908
- ^ New Dean Of Norwich The Times (London, England), Friday, 22 September 1911; pg. 4; Issue 39697
- ^ Sprent, F. P.; Matthew, H. C. G. "Beeching, Henry Charles (1859–1919)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30671. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ The Masque of B-ll—l online Archived 10 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
Bibliography
edit- "Beeching, Henry Charles (1859-1919)", Hugh Chisholm (ed.) Encyclopædia Britannica. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press, 1908.
- "Beeching, Henry Charles (1859-1919)", H. C. G. Matthew (ed.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.
External links
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- Works by Henry Beeching at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Henry Beeching at the Internet Archive
- Works by Henry Beeching at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
