Editing Henry Beeching

{{Short description|English clergyman and writer (1859–1919)}}
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}}'''Henry 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 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30671, accessed 18 Jan 2016]</ref> was a British clergyman, writer and poet, who was [[Dean of Norwich]] from 1911 to 1919.<ref>[http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/12th-april-1919/21/henry-charles-beeching-in-memoriam-norwich-public- 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>[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}}

==Works==
*[[File:Frederick Hollyer Nichols Mackail Beeching.jpg|thumb|262x262px|Beeching (right) with [[Bowyer Nichols]] and [[J. W. Mackail]], by Frederick Hollyer, c. 1882]][https://books.google.com/books?id=cL8YkVeHs5sC ''Love in Idleness: A Volume of Poems''] (1883) with [[John William Mackail|J. W. Mackail]] and [[Bowyer Nichols|J. B. B. Nichols]]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=BXoTPmm9dNwC ''Love's Looking Glass''] (1892) with J. W. Mackail and J. B. B. Nichols
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=YJH2L8siPc0C ''A Paradise of English Poetry''] (1893), an anthology of English poets
*[https://archive.org/details/pagesfromprivate00beec ''Pages from a Private Diary''] (1898), originally published anonymously
*{{cite journal|title=The Character of Shakespeare|journal=Proceedings of the British Academy, 1917–1918|volume=8|pages=157–179|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015029774216&view=1up&seq=177}}

==Notes==
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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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