Charles Henry Waller (1840–1910) was a Church of England minister, evangelical theologian and teacher.
Biography
Born at
Ettingshall
Ettingshall is an area of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, and is a ward of Wolverhampton City Council. The population of this ward taken at the 2011 census was 13,482.
History
Historically part of Staffordshire, Ettingshall was ment ...
in
Staffordshire (now part of
Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton () is a city, metropolitan borough and administrative centre in the West Midlands, England. The population size has increased by 5.7%, from around 249,500 in 2011 to 263,700 in 2021. People from the city are called "Wulfrunians ...
) on 23 November 1840, Waller was the eldest son of Stephen R. Waller, vicar of Ettingshall. His grandfather, the Rev. Harry Waller of Hall Bam,
Beaconsfield, was descended from
Edmund Waller
Edmund Waller, FRS (3 March 1606 – 21 October 1687) was an English poet and politician who was Member of Parliament for various constituencies between 1624 and 1687, and one of the longest serving members of the English House of Commons.
S ...
, a seventeenth-century English poet. His mother was eldest daughter of the Rev. Charles Richard Cameron and
Lucy Lyttelton Cameron
Lucy Lyttelton Cameron (29 April 1781 – 6 September 1858, née Butt) was a British magazine editor and a writer for children with religious themes.
Early life and education
Lucy Lyttelton Cameron was born in Stanford-on-Teme, taking her name ...
, writer of religious tales for children, whose elder sister was
Mary Martha Sherwood
Mary Martha Sherwood (née Butt; 6 May 177522 September 1851) was a nineteenth-century English children's writer. Of her more than four hundred works, the best known include '' The History of Little Henry and his Bearer'' (1814) and the two ser ...
, an author.
Educated at
Bromsgrove School
Bromsgrove School is a co-educational independent day and boarding school in the Worcestershire town of Bromsgrove, England. Founded in 1553, it is one of the oldest public schools in Britain, and one of the 14 founding members of the Headmaste ...
, he
matriculated
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Australia
In Australia, the term "matriculation" is seldom used now. ...
on 4 June 1859 at
University College, Oxford
University College (in full The College of the Great Hall of the University of Oxford, colloquially referred to as "Univ") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It has a claim to being the oldest college of the unive ...
, and held a scholarship there (1859–64). He took a first class in classics and a second in mathematical moderations in 1861, and a second in ''
literae humaniores'', and a third in mathematical finals in 1863, graduating B.A. in 1863; M.A. in 1867; B.D. and D.D. in 1891. He also won the Denyer and Johnson theological scholarship on its first award in 1866. Ordained deacon in 1864, and priest in 1865, he became curate of St. Jude, Mildmay Park, under William Pennefather. In 1865, on the recommendation of Canon A. M. W. Christopher of Oxford, he began his long service to the theological college, St. John's Hall,
Highbury
Highbury is a district in North London and part of the London Borough of Islington
in Greater London that was owned by Ranulf brother of Ilger and included all the areas north and east of Canonbury and Holloway Roads.
The manor house was sit ...
, as tutor under Dr. T. P. Boultbee. He served in addition as reader or curate on Sundays at Christ Church, Down Street (1865-9), and at
Curzon Chapel,
Mayfair, in 1869, under
A. W. Thorold, and was minister of St. John's Chapel,
Hampstead from 1870 to 1874. He became McNeile professor of biblical exegesis at St. John's Hall in 1882, and principal from 1884, on Boultbee's death, until his retirement on a pension in 1898. Of some 700 of his pupils at St. John's Hall, the majority entered the ministry of the
Church of England
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.
A pronounced evangelical, he acted as examining chaplain to Bishop
J. C. Ryle. At Oxford he had come under the influence of
John William Burgon
John William Burgon (21 August 18134 August 1888) was an English Anglican divine who became the Dean of Chichester Cathedral in 1876. He was known during his lifetime for his poetry and his defence of the historicity and Mosaic authorship of G ...
, and through life his main interest lay in the conservative study and interpretation of the Scriptures, on which he wrote much. He married, at Heckington, Lincolnshire, on 22 July 1865, Anna Maria, daughter of the Rev. James Stubbs and together they had four sons (three in holy orders) and three daughters (one a C.M.S. missionary at Sigra,
Benares
Varanasi (; ; also Banaras or Benares (; ), and Kashi.) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.
*
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* The city has a syncretic tra ...
).
He died on 9 May 1910 at Little Coxwell,
Faringdon
Faringdon is a historic market town in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, south-west of Oxford, north-west of Wantage and east-north-east of Swindon. It extends to the River Thames in the north; the highest ground is on the Ridg ...
,
Berkshire, and was buried there.
Publications
*''The Names on the Gates of Pearl, and other Studies'', 1875; 3rd edition 1904.
*''A Grammar and Analytical Vocabulary of the Words in the Greek Testament'', 2 parts, 1877-8
Part 1Part 2
*The volumes on
Deuteronomy and
Joshua
Joshua () or Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' lit. 'Yahweh is salvation') ''Yēšūaʿ''; syr, ܝܫܘܥ ܒܪ ܢܘܢ ''Yəšūʿ bar Nōn''; el, Ἰησοῦς, ar , يُوشَعُ ٱبْنُ نُونٍ '' Yūšaʿ ...
in ''
Ellicott's Commentary'', 1882
Deuteronomy*
The Authoritative Inspiration of Holy Scripture, as distinct from the Inspiration of its Human Authors', 1887
*''A Handbook to the Epistles of St. Paul'', 1887.
*''
Apostolical Succession tested by Holy Scripture,'' 1895.
*''The Word of God and the Testimony of Jesus Christ,'' 1903.
*''Moses and the Prophets, a Plea for the Authority of Moses in Holy Scripture,'' 1907: a reply to the Rev. Canon Driver.
*''Shadows of Redemption''
*
The Silver Sockets'
*'
When Ye Pray' Or, Lessons on Prayer'
*''Path to the City of Gold''
*
Adoption and the Covenant, Some Thoughts on Confirmation'
*''Notes on the Twelve Lesser Prophets''
*
The Greek Text of Westcott and Hort, The Case of the Conservatives'
*
Every-day Life'
Journal articles:
* Waller, Charles Henry.
Dean Burgon's "Revision Revised"'
''The Churchman'' 9.54 (March 1883): 443-450
* Waller, Charles Henry. 'Burgon and Millers "Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels",' ''The Churchman'' 10.11 (August 1896): 573-578.
References
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19th-century English theologians
19th-century English Anglican priests
1840 births
1910 deaths
People from Ettingshall
Burials in Berkshire