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OXENHAM, HENRY NUTCOMBE (1829—1888)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 401 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OXENHAM, See also:HENRY NUTCOMBE (1829—1888) , See also:English ecclesiologist, son of a See also:master at See also:Harrow, was See also:born there on the 15th of See also:November 1829. From Harrow he went to Balliol See also:College, See also:Oxford. He took See also:Anglican orders in 1854, but became a See also:Roman See also:Catholic in 18J7. At first his thoughts turned towards the priesthood, and he spent some See also:time at the See also:London See also:Oratory and at St See also:Edmund's College, See also:Ware; but being unable to surrender his belief in the validity of Anglican orders, he proceeded no further than See also:minor orders in the Roman See also:Church. In 1863 he made a prolonged visit to See also:Germany, where he studied the See also:language and literature, and formed a See also:close friendship with See also:Dollinger, whose First See also:Age of the See also:Christian Church he translated in 1866. Oxenham was a See also:regular contributor to the Saturday See also:Review. A selection of his essays was published in See also:Short Studies in Ecclesiastical See also:History and See also:Biography (1884), and Short Studies, Ethical and Religious (1885). He also translated in 1876 the 2nd vol. of See also:Bishop See also:Hefele's History of the See also:Councils of the Church, and published several See also:pamphlets on the See also:reunion of Christendom. His Catholic See also:Doctrine of the See also:Atonement (1865) and Catholic See also:Eschatology and Universalism (1876) are See also:standard See also:works. Oxenham died at See also:Kensington on the 23rd of See also:March 1888. See J. See also:Gillow's See also:Bibliographical See also:Dictionary of English Catholics, vol. v.

An interesting obituary See also:

notice on Oxenham was written by Vicesimus, i.e. See also:Dean See also:John Oakley of See also:Manchester, for the Manchester See also:Guardian, and published in pamphlet See also:form (Manchester, 1888).

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