Rule Britannia?

Michael Haykin  |  Features  |  history
Date posted:  1 Sep 2019
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Rule Britannia?

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Remembering the life of H M Gwatkin and the British Empire

The name of Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1844–1916) has long been a familiar one through his standard examination of the Arian heresy, Studies of Arianism (1882), which remains a classical study of this ancient heresy.

Gwatkin was rendered deaf as a young boy by an attack of scarlet fever, but that does not seem to have curbed his intellectual development. He had a love for history from an early age and in time developed that requisite for good historical scholarship, accuracy, which, Glover recalls, was ‘always his passion’.

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