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

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