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BEECHING, HENRY CHARLES (1859— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 641 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEECHING, See also:HENRY See also:CHARLES (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 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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