Henry Beeching

Henry Charles Beeching (15 May 1859 – 25 February 1919) was an English clergyman, author and poet.

Beeching was born in 1859, he was the son of JPG Beeching of Bexhill in Sussex. He was educated at the City of London School and at Balliol College, Oxford. He took holy orders in 1882, and began work in a Liverpool parish, at Mossley Hill. He was Rector of Yattendon from 1885 to 1900; Clark Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1900; Professor. of Pastoral Theology at King's College London from 1900 to 1903; Chaplain of Lincoln's Inn from 1900 to 1903;Canon of Westminster from 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 Benjamin Jowett:

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 those.

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