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Henry William Watkins was an
Anglican
priest , academic and author.
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
Born in
Abergavenny on 19 January 1844,
[5] he was educated at
King's College London
[6] and
Balliol College, Oxford .
[7]
Ordained in 1870
[8] his first post was as a
curate at St Nicholas,
Pluckley
[9] after which he was
Vicar of Holy Trinity,
Much Wenlock .
[10] He was a
censor ,
tutor and
lecturer in
Greek Testament at
King's College London from 1875 and
Professor of
Logic and
Moral Philosophy from 1877. He became
Warden of
St Augustine's College, Canterbury
[11] in 1879; then held the three archdeaconries of the
Diocese of Durham in quick succession:
Archdeacon of Northumberland , 1880–June 1882;
Archdeacon of Auckland , June–November 1882; and
Archdeacon of Durham , November 1882 – 1922.
[12]
[13] He was
Professor of
Hebrew at
Durham University ,
[14] retiring in 1920; and the
Bampton Lecturer at Oxford, in 1890.
[15]
He died at
Brighton
[16] on 31 August 1922.
[17]
Publications
Modern Criticism Considered in Its Relation to the Fourth Gospel (1890, Brampton Lectures)
Notes
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Next Theology
^ ” Durham University; earlier foundations and present colleges” Fowler,J.T London, F.E. Robinson 1904
^ Amongst others he wrote Religion and Science (1878); The Church in Northumberland (1881); Holy Temple (1886) and The Gospel according to St John (1890) >
British Library website accessed 14:03
GMT 17 November 2012.
^ "The Queen's Levee",
The Morning Post (London, England), 20 June 1899; p. 4. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II.
^ "Watkins, Ven. Henry William", Who Was Who , A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007
accessed 17 Nov 2012
^ UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
The Leeds Mercury (Leeds, England), Friday, May 14, 1869; Issue 9700
^ UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, June 15, 1878; Issue 6535
^ ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. The Standard (London, England), March 15, 1870; pg. 6; Issue 14232. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II.
^
Geograph
^ "Church News", The Standard (London, England), 17 June 1873; p. 6. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II
^
National Archives
^ ECCLESIASTICAL NEWS The York Herald (York, England), Tuesday, June 06, 1882; p. 3; Issue 7891. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II
^
SGD.83/1 (Accessed 30 May 2014)
^
Durham University Library Special Collections Catalogue
^ "University Intelligence: Next year’s Bampton Lecturer announced",
The Times (London, England), 22 May 1889; p. 8.
^
Welsh Journals
^ Obituary The Ven H.W. Watkins
The Times (London, England), Friday, Sep 01, 1922; pg. 9; Issue 43125
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