Henry Wace - Definition and Overview

Very Reverend Henry Wace (December 10, 1836 - January 9, 1924) was the Dean of Canterbury from 1903, edited in and contributed to publications in Christian and Ecclesiastical history. His best known work, of widest application, is the Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies.

Educated at the University of London and Oxford, he took various professorships at the King's College, University of London, University of Cambridge and Oxford. He received honorary freedom of the City of Canterbury in 1921 after appointed as the dean in 1903.

External link

• Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature (http://www.ccel.org/w/wace/biodict/htm/TOC.htm)