See also: - HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
English ecclesiologist, son of a master at Harrow, was born there on the 15th of November 1829
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From Harrow he went to Balliol College, See also: - OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
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He took Anglican orders in 1854, but became a Roman Catholic in 18J7
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At first his thoughts turned towards the priesthood, and he spent some See also: - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
at the London Oratory and at St Edmund's College, Ware; but being unable to surrender his belief in the validity of Anglican orders, he proceeded no further than minor orders in the Roman See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
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In 1863 he made a prolonged visit to Germany, where he studied the language and literature, and formed a close friendship with Dollinger, whose First Age of the Christian Church he translated in 1866
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Oxenham was a regular contributor to the Saturday Review
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A selection of his essays was published in Short Studies in Ecclesiastical History and Biography (1884), and Short Studies, Ethical and Religious (1885)
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He also translated in 1876 the 2nd vol. of Bishop Hefele's History of the Councils of the Church, and published several pamphlets on the reunion of Christendom
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His Catholic Doctrine of the Atonement (1865) and Catholic Eschatology and Universalism (1876) are standard works
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Oxenham died at Kensington on the 23rd of March 1888
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See J
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Gillow's Bibliographical Dictionary of English Catholics, vol. v
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An interesting obituary notice on Oxenham was written by Vicesimus, i.e
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Dean John Oakley of Manchester, for the Manchester Guardian, and published in pamphlet form (Manchester, 1888)
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End of Article: HENRY NUTCOMBE OXENHAM (1829—1888)
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