IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP21
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: WACE, Very Reverend Henry (1836-1924)
Date(s): Created 1874-1894
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Wace | Henry | 1836-1924 | Very Reverend | Principal of King's College London
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 10 December 1836, London; educated at Marlborough, Rugby, King's College London and Brasenose College Oxford, attaining a BA in Classics and Mathematics; Honorary Fellow of Brasenose, 1911; ordained Curate, St Luke's, Berwick Street, London, 1861-1863; St James's, Piccadilly, London, 1863-1869; Grosvenor Chapel, London, 1870-1872; delivered Boyle Lectures, 1874, 1875; Bampton Lectures at Oxford, 1879; Warburton Lecturer at Lincoln's Inn, 1896; Select Preacher at Oxford, 1880-1881, 1907 and at Cambridge, 1876, 1891, 1903 and 1910; Professor of Ecclesiastical History, King's College London, 1875; Prebendary of St Paul's, 1881; Principal of King's College London, 1883-1897; Chaplain of Lincoln's Inn, 1872-1880; Preacher of Lincoln's Inn, 1880-1896; Rector of St Michael's Cornhill, 1896-1903; Chaplain to Inns of Court Rifle Volunteers, 1880-1908; Dean of Canterbury from 1903; received honorary freedom of the City of Canterbury, 1921; died 9 January 1924.
Publications: Editor of A Dictionary of Christian Biography, literature, sects and doctrines with W Smith, 4 vols (John Murray, London, 1877-87); Some Central Points of Our Lord's Ministry (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1890); editor of Sussex folk and Sussex ways: a new edition with illustrations (Chatto & Windus, London, 1892); Christianity and Agnosticism. Reviews of some recent attacks on the Christian Faith (W. Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1895); editor of Luther's Primary Works, together with his shorter and larger Catechisms, translated into English with C A Buchheim, (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1896); editor of The Doctrine of Holy Communion and its Expression in Ritual. Report of a conference held at Fulham Palace in October 1900 (Longmans & Co, London, 1900); editor of Confession and Absolution. Report of a Conference held at Fulham Palace on December 30 and 31, 1901, and January 1, 1902 (Longmans & Co, London, 1902); Christianity and Agnosticism (Christian Knowledge Society, London, 1904); The Education Crisis: letters on the subject by the Dean of Canterbury (H Wace), Dr. Clifford and others. Re-published from the "Times," January, 1907 (Christian Knowledge Society, London, 1907); Principles of the Reformation, practical and historical (James Nisbet & Co, London, 1910); editor of A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the end of the sixth century A D, with an account of the principal sects and heresies with W C Piercy (John Murray, London, 1911); Some Questions of the Day, biblical, national, and ecclesiastical (James Nisbet & Co, London, 1912); Some Questions of the Day, national, ecclesiastical and religious (Chas J Thynne, London, 1914); The War and the Gospel: sermons and addresses during the present war (C J Thynne, London, 1917); Creative Christianity (Addresses) with others (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1921); The Story of the Passion, its own message considered in addresses (John Murray, London, 1922); The Story of the Resurrection (John Murray, London, 1923); Boyle, Bampton and Warburton lectures, and sermons.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Bound volume of printed documents, mainly relating to King's College London, some annotated by Wace, and including, Return made by the Council in compliance with a request received December 1893, from the Education Department; Instructions to advise and opinion of counsel, 1893; Report of the Committee on grants to University Colleges in Great Britain, 1892; Fifth report of the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science, 1874; Gresham University Commission, The report of the Commissioners appointed to consider the draft charter for the proposed Gresham University in London, 1894, and Answers to the objections raised against the charter of the Gresham University; Draft charter of the Gresham University, 1893; Corrections of mistakes in evidence affecting University College.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 volume
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College, London.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Draft handlist available in hard copy in the reading room of the College Archives.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Principal's records of King's College London.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Related material:
Correspondence with Edward White Benson, 1883-1896, letters to Archibald Campbell Tait, 1874-1882, and correspondence with Frederick Temple, 1896-1902, at Lambeth Palace Library; letters to Robert William Dale, 1875-1891, at Birmingham University Information Services, Special Collections Department; letters to Joseph Barber Lightfoot, 1870-1883, at Durham Dean and Chapter Library; letters to C C Osborne, 1905-1906, British Library, Manuscript Collections; letters to Brooke Foss Westcott, 1875-1894, Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2000