Editing Henry Beeching (section)

==Biography==
H. C. Beeching was born on 15 May 1859 in Sussex, the son of J. P. G. Beeching of Bexhill.<ref>[https://hymnary.org/person/Beeching_HC1 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 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U193341, 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>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Beeching, Henry Charles|volume=3}}</ref> He was [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|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 (priest)|Canon]] of [[Westminster Abbey]] from October 1902 until 1911<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27487|date=24 October 1902|page=6734}}</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>{{cite ODNB|first1=F. P.|last1=Sprent|title=Beeching, Henry Charles (1859–1919)|first2=H. C. G. |last2=Matthew|id=30671}}</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>[http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2735.html The Masque of B-ll—l online] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061010135910/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2735.html |date=10 October 2006 }}</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.{{Citation needed|date=March 2013}}