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HENRY WACE (1836– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 224 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY WACE (1836– )  ,
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English divine, was born in
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London on the 'oth of December 1836, and educated at Marl-borough,
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Rugby, King's College, London, and Brasenose College, Oxford . He was ordained in the Church of England in 1861, and held various curacies in London, being
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chaplain at Lincoln's
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Inn in 1872 and preacher in 1880 . From 1875 to 1896 he was prominently connected with King's College, London, where hewas professor of ecclesiastical
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history, and subsequently (1883)
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principal . Both as preacher and writer Dr Wace, who took his D.D. degree in 1883, became conspicuous in the theological
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world . He was Boyle lecturer in 1874 and 1875, and Bampton lecturer in 1879; and besides
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publishing several volumes of sermons, he was co-editor of the
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Dictionary of Christian Biography (1877–1887), and editor of The
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Speaker's Commentary on the Apocrypha . He took a leading
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part as the champion of historic orthodoxy in the controversies with contemporary Rationalism in all its forms, and firmly upheld the importance of denominational
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education and of the religious test at King's College; and when the test was abolished in 1902 he resigned his seat on the council . In 1881 he was given a prebendal stall at St Paul's, and in 1889 was appointed a chaplain-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria . When he resigned the principalship of King's College in 1896 he was made rector of St Michael's, Cornhill; and in 1903 he became dean of Canterbury, in succession to Dr Farrar .

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