Beeching, Henry Charles

First name(s)

Henry Charles

Surname

Beeching

Position(s) held at King's College London

Professor of Pastoral Theology, 1900-1903

Education & professional details

School, college and/or university attended

• City of London School (1875) ^{Ref: *1}
• Balliol College, Oxford (1878-1883)

Qualifications

• BA, Balliol, 1883

Position(s) held (non King's College London)

• Pastor, Bradfield College, Berkshire ^{Ref: *2}
• Curate of St Matthew's, Mossley Hill (1882-1885) ^{Ref: *1 *2}
• Chaplin to Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn (c. 1900) ^{Ref: *2}
• Canon of Westminster (1902) ^{Ref: *1}
• Dean of Norwich (1911) ^{Ref: *1}

Professional activities

• Awarding Examiner for Higher Certificates to the Joint Universities' Board ^{Ref: *2}
• Ordained Deacon (1882) _{Ref: *1}
• Select Preacher at Oxford 1896-1897 and 1912–13 ^{Ref: 1* *2}
• English tutor (English Literature) ^{Ref: *2}
• Clark Lecturer, Trinity College, Cambridge (1900) ^{Ref: *2}
• Select Preacher, Cambridge (1903, 1909, 1912) ^{Ref: 1*}
• Select Preacher, Dublin (1905) ^{Ref: 1*}

 

Publications

Contributor to Waifs and Strays, Oxford undergraduate periodical, 1878-1883

(with J. W. Mackail and J. B. B. Nichols):

Mensae Secundae (1879)

Love in Idleness (1883) 

Love's Looking-Glass (1891)

Love in a Garden and other Poems (1895)

Cornhill Magazine (anonymous contributor)

Pages from a Private Diary; the Second Edition (1903) (under the pseudonym “Urbanus Sylvan”)

Edition on Milton (1900)

Religio laici (1902)

Provincial Letters and other Papers (1906)

The Bible Doctrine of Atonement (1907)

William Shakespeare … a Reply to Mr George Greenwood, MP (1908)

Biography of Francis Atterbury (1909)

Personal details

Date of birth

15 May 1859

Place of birth

16 Dorset Street, London

Date of death

25 February 1919

Place of death

Norwich

Family details

Father was James Plumer George Beeching, mother was Harriet Skaife. Married Mary Bridges in 1890. ^{Ref: *1} Together they had three daughters, Harriet Beeching(1892–), Phyllis Anne Maint Stephen (1894–) and Helen Impey Friedswide (1895–1983). ^{Ref: *3}