Background
Bevan was born in Shrewsbury, son of Henry Bevan, and educated at the Shrewsbury School.
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Henry Bevan
Edit Profilerector Professor of Divinity Anglican divine
Education
Shrewsbury School; Street John"s College.
Career
Venerable (of an Archdeacon) He earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1878 from Street John"s College, Cambridge, and an Master of Arts in 1883 from Ely Theological College. He became curate at Street Lawrence Jewry for five years (1878-1883), and Camden Lecturer there. In 1878, he was ordained as a deacon, and as a priest in 1879.
He became the first vicar of Saint 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 Street Luke Old Street, where he was also rector. He was Archdeacon of Middlesex from 1903 to 1930.
He also became in 1903 chaplain to the 1st Middlesex Royal Engineers Volunteers, later redesignated the 2nd London Divisional Royal Engineers of the Territorial Army. From 1894 to 1930 he was Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of London, serving three incumbent bishops - Frederick Temple (about whom Bevan authored a memoir of Temple"s period in London, published 1906), Mandell Creighton and Arthur Winnington-Ingram.
Through his mother, Bevan was the grand-nephew of John Smalman, the builder of Quatford Castle in Shropshire, which later became his own country residence when he inherited it in 1889.
John Ireland"s Te Deum in F is dedicated to Bevan.
