Henry Melvill Gwatkin

Reverend Henry Melvill Gwatkin (30 July 1844–14 November 1916) was an English theologian and church historian.

He was born at Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. He became Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History of the University of Cambridge in 1891, retiring in 1912.

Works

• Studies of Arianism, Chiefly Referring to the Character and Chronology of the Reaction Which Followed the Council of Nicaea (1882)
• The Arian Controversy (1889)
• The Meaning of Ecclesiastical History (1891) Inaugural Lecture
• Selections from Early Writers, illustrative of Church history to the time of Constantine (1893)
• The Church Past and Present: a Review of its History (1900) editor
• The Eye for Spiritual Things: and Other Sermons (1906)
• The Knowledge of God and its Historical Development (1906) Gifford Lectures, two volumes
• Early Church History to A.D. 313 (1909) two volumes
• The Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. I: The Christian Roman Empire and the Foundation of the Teutonic Kingdoms (1911) editor with J. P. Whitney
• The Cambridge Medieval History: Volume II, The Rise Of The Saracens And The Foundation Of The Western Empire (1913) editor with J. B. Bury
• Episcopy I. In Scripture (1914) pamphlet
• The Confirmation Rubric: Whom does it Bind (1914) pamphlet
• Britain's Case Against Germany: A Letter to a Neutral (1917)
• Church and State in England to the Death of Queen Anne (1917)
• Sacrifice of Thankfulness (1917) sermons, edited by L. de L. Gwatkin

Gwatkin also wrote few malacological studies, include:

• Gwatkin H. M., Suter H. & Pilsbry H. A. 1895. Observations on the dentition on Achatinellidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, volume 47, 237-240.

External links

• Works by Henry Melvill Gwatkin at Project Gutenberg