Henry Law (29 September 1797 – 25 November 1884) wasDean of Gloucester from 1862 until his death.^[1]

Law was born atKelshall rectory,Hertfordshire, on 29 September 1797. He was the third son ofGeorge Henry Law who wasBishop of Chester from 1812 to 1824 and laterBishop of Bath and Wells until his death in 1845.^[2] Henry Law was thus the grandson ofEdmund Law who had been the Master ofPeterhouse, Cambridge, from 1756 to 1768 and thenBishop of Carlisle until his death in 1787.^[3]

Law was educated atEton College andSt John's College, Cambridge, where he became afellow in 1821. Later that year he wasordained and heldincumbencies inManchester thenChildwall. He wasArchdeacon of Richmond from 1824 to 1826 andArchdeacon of Wells from 1826^[4] until his appointment to thedeanery.^[5]

One of his most well-known works is entitled "Christ is All: The Gospel in the Pentateuch", which surveys typologies of Christ inthe first five books of the Old Testament. It was originally published in 1867 by theReligious Tract Society.^[6] This book proved significant in the development ofHudson Taylor's notion of the "exchanged life".^[7]

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