Wace, HENRY, theologian, was born in London, 10th December 1836, and educated at Marlborough, Rugby, King's College, London, and Brasenose College, Oxford, graduating in 1860 with a second-class in both classics and mathematics. He served curacies at St Luke's and St James's; was lecturer of Grosvenor Chapel, chaplain of Lincoln's Inn (1872-80), when he became its preacher; and acted as professor of Ecclesiastical History in King's College (1875-83). In 1881 he became a prebendary of St Paul's, in 1883 chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury and principal of King's College. He was Boyle lecturer—Christianity and Morality—(1874-75), Bampton lecturer—The Foundations of Faith—(1879), and was select preacher at Cambridge (1878), at Oxford (1880-82), honorary chaplain to the Queen (1884), and chaplain-in-ordinary (1889). His name is best known as the joint-editor with Sir W. Smith of the great Dictionary of Christian Biography (4 vols. 1877-87), and as himself the editor of the Speaker's Commentary on the Apocrypha (2 vols. 1886).
Other books are The Gospel and its Witnesses (1883), Student's Manual of the Evidences of Christianity (1886), Some Central Points of Our Lord's Ministry (1890).