Henry Bevan
British divine (1854–1935)
Ven. Henry Edward James Bevan FRSL (14 May 1854 – 11 July 1935) was an English Anglican divine.
Early life and education
Bevan was born in Shrewsbury, son of Henry Bevan, and educated at the Shrewsbury School. He earned a B.A. in 1878 from St John's College, Cambridge, and an M.A. in 1883 from Ely Theological College. He became curate at 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.
Later career
He became the first vicar of St. Andrew's Stoke Newington and Gresham Professor of Divinity in 1888, succeeding John Burgon in the Gresham Professorship, which he held until 1904. In 1895 he became rector of Holy Trinity Sloane Street, and in 1902 he moved from there to St Luke's Church, Chelsea, where he was also rector. He was Archdeacon of Middlesex from 1903 to 1930.
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