Henry Melvill Gwatkin (30 July 1844 – 14 November 1916) was an
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and
church historian
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.
Gwatkin was born at
Barrow-on-Soar
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,
Leicestershire
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, the youngest son of the Rev. Richard Gwatkin,
["Gwatkin, Henry Melvill" in '']Alumni Cantabrigienses
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'', Vol. 3
p. 179
/ref> and educated at Shrewsbury
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and St John's College, Cambridge
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. In 1868, he won the university's Scholefield Prize and Hebrew Prize and began his academic career as a Fellow of St John's. In 1891, was appointed as Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History
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in the University of Cambridge
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, and also transferred as a Fellow to Emmanuel College, serving in those roles until 1912.[A Cambridge Necropolis by ]Mark Goldie
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, 2000 with his wife Lucy de Lisle Gwatkin.
Works
''Studies of Arianism, Chiefly Referring to the Character and Chronology of the Reaction Which Followed the Council of Nicaea''
(1882; second edition 1900)
''The Arian Controversy''
(1889)
*''The Meaning of Ecclesiastical History'' (1891) Inaugural Lecture
''Selections from Early Writers, illustrative of Church history to the time of Constantine''
(1893; revised 1897)
''The Church Past and Present: a Review of its History''
(1900) editor
''The Eye for Spiritual Things: and Other Sermons''
(1906)
*''The Knowledge of God and its Historical Development'' (1906) Gifford Lectures
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, two volumes
''Volume 1''
an
''Volume 2''
*''Early Church History to A.D. 313'' (1909) two volumes
''Volume 1''
an
''Volume 2''
*''The Cambridge Medieval History
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'
''Volume I: The Christian Roman Empire and the Foundation of the Teutonic Kingdoms''
(1911) editor with J. P. Whitney
''The Cambridge Medieval History: Volume II: The Rise Of The Saracens And The Foundation Of The Western Empire''
(1913) editor with J. B. Bury
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and J. P. Whitney
*''Episcopacy I. In Scripture'' (1914) pamphlet
*''The Confirmation Rubric: Whom does it Bind'' (1914) pamphlet
''Britain's Case Against Germany: A Letter to a Neutral''
(1917)
''Church and State in England to the Death of Queen Anne''
(1917)
''The Sacrifice of Thankfulness''
(1917) Sermons, edited by L. de L. Gwatkin
Gwatkin also wrote a few malacological studies, including:
* Gwatkin H. M., Suter H. & Pilsbry H. A. 1895. ''Observations on the dentition on Achatinellidae''.
volume 47237
240.
References
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1844 births
1916 deaths
English theologians
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Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
Dixie Professors of Ecclesiastical History
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English medievalists
People educated at Shrewsbury School
People from Barrow upon Soar
Writers from Leicestershire
20th-century English historians
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