Henry Charles Beeching (15 May 1859 – 25 February 1919) was a British clergyman, author and poet, who was

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from 1911 to 1919.

Biography

Beeching was born on 15 May 1859 in Sussex, the son of J. P. G. Beeching of Bexhill. He was educated at the City of London School and at

Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...

. He took holy orders in 1882, and began work in a Liverpool parish at Mossley Hill. He was

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of Yattendon from 1885 to 1900; Clark Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1900; professor of Pastoral Theology at

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

from 1900 to 1903; Chaplain of

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from 1900 to 1903; Canon of Westminster Abbey from October 1902 until 1911 and

from 1911 until his death. He wrote a book on

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. To him is attributed the popular

epigram An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word is derived from the Greek "inscription" from "to write on, to inscribe", and the literary device has been employed for over two mille ...

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.The Masque of B-ll—l online
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.

Works

Frederick Hollyer Nichols Mackail Beeching

''Love in Idleness: A Volume of Poems''
(1883) with J. W. Mackail and

J. B. B. Nichols John Bowyer Buchanan Nichols (13 November 1859 – 2 June 1939), known as Bowyer Nichols, was an English poet and artist. Nichols was the son of Francis Morgan Nichols, an editor and writer, and was paternally descended from the printer and wri ...

''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 *

Notes

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.

External links

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