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HENRY CHARLES BEECHING (1859— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 641 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY CHARLES BEECHING (1859— )  ,
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English clergy-man and author, was born on the 15th of May 1859, and educated at the City of
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London school and at Balliol College, Oxford . Ile took
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holy orders in 1882, and of ter three years i11 a Liverpool curacy he was for fifteen years rector of Yattendon, Berkshire . From 1900 to 1903 he lectured on pastoral and liturgical
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theology at King's College, London, and was
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chaplain of Lincoln's
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Inn, where he became preacher in 1903 . He became a
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canon of Westminster in 1902, and examining chaplain to the bishop of Carlisle in 1905 . As a poet he is best known by his share in two volumes—Love in Idleness (1883) and Love's Looking Glass (1891)—which contained also poems by J . W . Mackail and J . Bowyer Nichols . He was a sympathetic editor and critic of the
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works of many 16th and 17th century poets, of Richard Crashaw (1905), of Herrick (1907), of John Milton (woo), of Henry Vaughan (1896) . Under the pseudonym of "Urbanus Sylvan" he published two successful volumes of essays, Pages from a Private
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Diary (1898) and Provincial Letters and other Papers (1906) . His works also include numerous volumes of sermons and essays on theological subjects .

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