Henry Burgess (1808 – 10 February 1886) was an English priest.

Life

He was educated at a

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, where he studied Hebrew as well as the Classics. After ministering to a

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congregation, he was ordained deacon in 1850 and priest in 1851 by Prince Lee,

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. He took the degree of

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(LLD) at

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in 1851 and a

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PhD at the

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in the following year. He held the

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of Clifton Reynes, Buckinghamshire, from 1854 to 1861, when he was appointed by the

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to the vicarage of St Andrew,

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, Cambridgeshire, in recognition of his services to theological learning. He held it until his death on 10 February 1886.

Works

His major works are: * A translation from the Syriac language of the ''Metrical Hymns and Homilies of St Ephrem Syrus, with Philological Notes and Dissertations on the Syrian Metrical Church Literature'', 2 vols. 1835. * ''The Country Miscellany'', 2 vols. 1836–7. * ''Poems'', 1850, dedicated to the Marchioness of Bute. * Translation of the ''Festal Letters of St Athanasius'', 1852, a work which, after being long lost in the original Greek, was recovered in an ancient Syriac version, and edited for the Oxford ''

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'' by Henry Griffin Williams. * ''The Reformed Church of England in its Principles and their legitimate Development'', 1869. * ''Essays, Biblical and Ecclesiastical, relating chiefly to the Authority and Interpretation of the Holy Scriptures''. * ''The Art of Preaching and the Composition of Sermons'', 1881. He prepared the second edition of

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's ''Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature'', and he was for some years editor of the ''Clerical Journal'' (1854–68) and the ''Journal of Sacred Literature''.

References

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Burgess, Henry 1808 births 1886 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests