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