Henry charles beeching biography
Biography.
Henry Charles Beeching (– 25 February ) was a British clergyman, writer and poet, who was Dean of Norwich from to.
Henry Beeching
English clergyman and writer (–)
Henry Charles Beeching (15 May – 25 February )[1] was a British clergyman, writer and poet, who was Dean of Norwich from to [2]
Biography
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C. Beeching was born on 15 May in Sussex, the son of J. P. G. Beeching of Bexhill.[3] He was educated at the City of London School and at Balliol College, Oxford.[4][5] He took holy orders in , and began work in a Liverpool parish at Mossley Hill.[6] He was Rector of Yattendon from to ; Clark Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge in ; professor of Pastoral Theology at King's College London from to ; Chaplain of Lincoln's Inn from to ;[7]Canon of Westminster Abbey from October until [8][9] and Dean of Norwich from until his death.[10] 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