Henry Melvill Gwatkin
Henry Melvill Gwatkin was an English theologian and church historian.
Gwatkin was born at Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire, the youngest son of the Rev. Richard Gwatkin, and educated at Shrewsbury and St John's College, Cambridge. In 1868, he won the university's Scholefield Prize and Hebrew Prize and began his academic career as a Fellow of St John's. In 1891, was appointed as Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Cambridge, and also transferred as a Fellow to Emmanuel College, serving in those roles until 1912.
Gwatkin died in 1916 and is buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground, Cambridge, with his wife Lucy de Lisle Gwatkin.
Works
- The Meaning of Ecclesiastical History Inaugural Lecture
- editor
- The Knowledge of God and its Historical Development Gifford Lectures, two volumes: and
- Early Church History to A.D. 313 two volumes: and
- The Cambridge Medieval History editor with J. P. Whitney
- editor with J. B. Bury and J. P. Whitney
- Episcopacy I. In Scripture pamphlet
- The Confirmation Rubric: Whom does it Bind pamphlet
- Sermons, edited by L. de L. Gwatkin
- Gwatkin H. M., Suter H. & Pilsbry H. A. 1895. Observations on the dentition on Achatinellidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia,, -240.