Henry Beeching
Henry Charles Beeching was a British clergyman, author and poet, who was Dean of Norwich from 1911 to 1919.Biography
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 Cathedral 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 Benjamin Jowett:
This is the first verse of The Masque of B-ll—l, 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.
