English clergyman and writer (1859–1919)
Henry Charles Beeching (15 May 1859 – 25 February 1919)[ 1] Dean of Norwich from 1911 to 1919.[ 2]
H. C. Beeching was born on 15 May 1859 in Sussex, the son of J. P. G. Beeching of Bexhill.[ 3] City of London School and atBalliol College, Oxford .[ 4] [ 5] holy orders in 1882, and began work in aLiverpool parish atMossley Hill .[ 6] Rector ofYattendon from 1885 to 1900; Clark Lecturer atTrinity College, Cambridge in 1900; professor ofPastoral Theology atKing's College London from 1900 to 1903; Chaplain ofLincoln's Inn from 1900 to 1903;[ 7] Canon ofWestminster Abbey from October 1902 until 1911[ 8] [ 9] Dean of Norwich from 1911 until his death.[ 10] Francis Atterbury .[ 11] epigram onBenjamin 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.[ 12] This is the first verse ofThe 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.[citation needed
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