Henry Beeching

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Bowyer Nichols, J. W. Mackail, and H. C. Beeching, by Frederick Hollyer, c. 1882.

Henry Charles Beeching (15 May 1859 – 25 February 1919)[1] was a British clergyman, author and poet, who was Dean of Norwich from 1911 to 1919.[2]

Biography

Beeching was born in 1859, he was the son of JPG Beeching of Bexhill in Sussex.[3] He was educated at the City of London School[4] and at Balliol College, Oxford.[5] He took holy orders in 1882, and began work in a Liverpool parish,[6] at Mossley Hill. 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 Cathedral from October 1902 until 1911[8][9] and Dean of Norwich from 1911[10] until his death. 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.

This is the first verse of The Masque of B-ll—l[12] (1880), a scurrilous undergraduate production in 40 verses satirising Balliol figures. It was suppressed at the time; later research[citation needed] has given Beeching credit for 19 of those.

Bibliography

  • 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, an anthology of various authors compiled by Beeching
  • Pages from a Private Diary (1898) — published anonymously.

Notes

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ The Spectator
  3. ↑ Beeching H, Hymnary.org. Retrieved 2 May 2017
  4. ↑ ‘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
  5. ↑ 'UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE' Daily News (London, England), Tuesday, 29 June 1880; Issue 10670
  6. ↑ Chisholm 1911.
  7. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1908: London Horace Cox, 1908
  8. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27487. p. . 24 October 1902.
  9. ↑ Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Saturday, 25 October 1902; pg. 9; Issue 36908
  10. ↑ New Dean Of Norwich The Times (London, England), Friday, 22 September 1911; pg. 4; Issue 39697
  11. ↑ Sprent 2004.
  12. ↑ The Masque of B-ll—l online Archived 10 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine

References

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