# Henry Bevan

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Ven. **Henry Edward James Bevan** [FRSL](/source/Royal_Society_of_Literature)[1] (14 May 1854 – 11 July 1935) was an English [Anglican divine](/source/Anglican_divine).[2]

## Early life and education

Bevan was born in [Shrewsbury](/source/Shrewsbury), son of Henry Bevan,[3] and educated at the [Shrewsbury School](/source/Shrewsbury_School). He earned a B.A. in 1878 from [St John's College, Cambridge](/source/St_John's_College,_Cambridge), and an M.A. in 1883 from [Ely Theological College](/source/Ely_Theological_College). He became [curate](/source/Curate) at [St Lawrence Jewry](/source/St_Lawrence_Jewry) for five years (1878–83), and Camden Lecturer there. In 1878, he was ordained as a deacon, and as a priest in 1879.[4]

## Later career

He became the first[3] [vicar](/source/Vicar) of [St. Andrew's Stoke Newington](/source/Stoke_Newington_(parish)) and [Gresham Professor of Divinity](/source/Gresham_Professor_of_Divinity) in 1888, succeeding [John Burgon](/source/John_Burgon) in the Gresham Professorship, which he held until 1904. In 1895 he became [rector](/source/Rector_(ecclesiastical)) of [Holy Trinity Sloane Street](/source/Holy_Trinity_Sloane_Street), and in 1902 he moved from there to [St Luke's Church, Chelsea](/source/St_Luke's_Church,_Chelsea), where he was also rector. He was [Archdeacon of Middlesex](/source/Archdeacon_of_Middlesex) from 1903 to 1930.[2][5][6][7] He also became in 1903 chaplain to the [1st Middlesex Engineer Volunteers](/source/1st_Middlesex_Engineers),[3] later redesignated the 2nd London Divisional Royal Engineers of the [Territorial Army](/source/Territorial_Army_(United_Kingdom)).[7]

From 1894 to 1930 he was Examining Chaplain to the [Bishop of London](/source/Bishop_of_London),[4] serving three incumbent bishops - [Frederick Temple](/source/Frederick_Temple) (about whom Bevan authored a memoir of Temple's period in London, published 1906),[4] [Mandell Creighton](/source/Mandell_Creighton) and [Arthur Winnington-Ingram](/source/Arthur_Winnington-Ingram).

Through his mother, Bevan was the grand-nephew of John Smalman, the builder of [Quatford Castle](/source/Quatford) in [Shropshire](/source/Shropshire), which later became his own country residence when he inherited it in 1889.[3][7][8] In 1883 he married Charlotte, the second daughter of the 8th [Viscount Molesworth](/source/Viscount_Molesworth).[7] Bevan died in July 1935 aged 81.

The organist and composer, [John Ireland](/source/John_Ireland_(composer)) (1879–1962), whose 'Te Deum in F' (1907) is dedicated to Bevan, was appointed sub-organist at [Holy Trinity Sloane Street](/source/Holy_Trinity_Sloane_Street) in 1896, and followed Bevan to [St Luke's Church, Chelsea](/source/St_Luke's_Church,_Chelsea) as organist in 1904.[9]

## References

1. Listed as FRSL in his publication "[The Religion and Philosophy of Thomas Carlyle](https://books.google.com/books?id=NE4MAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA211&lpg=PA211)", *Trans. Roy. Soc. Lit.* XXVI 211–230, 1905.

1. ["The Cambridge yearbook and directory"](https://books.google.com/books?id=gO4pAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA58), S. Sonnenschein & Co., 1906, p. 58.

1. Mate, C.H. (1907). *Shropshire, Historical Descriptive and Biographical, Volume II - Biographical*. p. 28.

1. *Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1935*. Crockford's. p. 104.

1. ["Our Chronicle"](https://books.google.com/books?id=nWIZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA390), *The Eagle*. Vol. 15, [St John's College, Cambridge](/source/St_John's_College,_Cambridge), 1889, p. 390.

1. ["Our Chronicle"](https://books.google.com/books?id=hgQBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA214), *The Eagle*. Vol. 25, [St John's College, Cambridge](/source/St_John's_College,_Cambridge), 1904, p. 214.

1. Henry Robert Addison; Charles Henry Oakes; William John Lawson; Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1901), ["Who's who, Volume 53"](https://books.google.com/books?id=8EcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA157), A. & C. Black, pp. 157–158.

1. Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Great Britain) (1902), ["Sequestration papers of Thomas Smalman of Wilderhope"](https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXhHAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA15), "Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society", Adnitt and Naunton, p. 15.

1. Craggs, Stewart R. (2007), [*John Ireland: A Catalogue, Discography and Bibliography*](https://books.google.com/books?id=x-7MOh-jSJoC&pg=PA130), Ashgate Publishing, p. 130, ISBN 9780859679411.

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