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Henry Charles Beeching (15 May 1859 – 25 February 1919) was a British clergyman, author and poet, who was Dean of Norwich from 1911 to 1919.


Biography

Beeching was born on 15 May 1859 in Sussex, the son of J. P. G. Beeching of Bexhill. He was educated at the
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and at Balliol College, Oxford. He took holy orders in 1882, and began work in a
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. He was
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from 1885 to 1900; Clark Lecturer at
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in 1900; professor of
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at King's College London from 1900 to 1903; Chaplain of Lincoln's Inn from 1900 to 1903;
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from October 1902 until 1911 and Dean of Norwich from 1911 until his death. He wrote a book on Francis Atterbury. To him is attributed the popular epigram on
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: :First come I; my name is Jowett. :There's no knowledge but I know it. :I am master of this college: :What I don't know isn't knowledge.The Masque of B-ll—l online
This is the first verse of ''The Masque of B-ll—l'' (1880), a scurrilous undergraduate production in 40 verses satirising Balliol figures. It was suppressed at the time. Later research has given Beeching credit for 19 of the verses.


Works

*''Love in Idleness: A Volume of Poems''
(1883) with
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and J. B. B. Nichols
''Love's Looking Glass''
(1892) with J. W. Mackail and J. B. B. Nichols
''A Paradise of English Poetry''
(1893), an anthology of English poets
''Pages from a Private Diary''
(1898), originally published anonymously *


Notes


Bibliography

* "Beeching, Henry Charles (1859-1919)", Hugh Chisholm (ed.) ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press, 1908. * "Beeching, Henry Charles (1859-1919)", H. C. G. Matthew (ed.) ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Oxford University Press, 2004.


External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Beeching, Henry Charles 1859 births 1919 deaths People educated at the City of London School Deans of Norwich Canons of Westminster English male poets Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Academics of King's College London