Henry Beeching

Template:Infobox Christian leaderHenry Charles Beeching (15 May 1859 – 25 February 1919)<ref>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</ref> was a British clergyman, writer and poet, who was Dean of Norwich from 1911 to 1919.<ref>The Spectator</ref>

Biography

H. C. Beeching was born on 15 May 1859 in Sussex, the son of J. P. G. Beeching of Bexhill.<ref>Beeching H, Hymnary.org. Retrieved 2 May 2017</ref> He was educated at the City of London School and at Balliol College, Oxford.<ref>‘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</ref><ref> 'UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE' Daily News (London, England), Tuesday, 29 June 1880; Issue 10670</ref> He took holy orders in 1882, and began work in a Liverpool parish at Mossley Hill.<ref>Template:Cite EB1911</ref> 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;<ref>Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1908: London Horace Cox, 1908</ref> Canon of Westminster Abbey from October 1902 until 1911<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref><ref>Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Saturday, 25 October 1902; pg. 9; Issue 36908</ref> and Dean of Norwich from 1911 until his death.<ref>New Dean Of Norwich The Times (London, England), Friday, 22 September 1911; pg. 4; Issue 39697</ref> He wrote a book on Francis Atterbury.<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref> 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.<ref>The Masque of B-ll—l online Template:Webarchive</ref>

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.Template:Citation needed

Works

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  Beeching (right) with Bowyer Nichols and J. W. Mackail, by Frederick Hollyer, c. 1882
  Love in Idleness: A Volume of Poems (1883) with J. W. Mackail and J. B. B. Nichols
• 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
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Bibliography

• "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.

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