Oxenham, HENRY NUTCOMBE

Oxenham, HENRY NUTCOMBE, theologian, was born at Harrow, November 15, 1829, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, taking a classical second- class in 1850. He took orders in 1854, and held various curacies, but entered the Roman Catholic Church in 1857, and was successively professor at St Edmund's College, Ware, and master at the Oratory School, Birmingham. He died March 23, 1888. Oxenham translated Döllinger's First Age of the Church (1866), and Lectures on Re-union of the Churches (1872), also vol. ii. of Hefele's History of the Councils of the Church (1876); and, besides frequent articles in the leading reviews, the following learned works came from his pen: Catholic Doctrine of the Atonement (1865); Catholic Eschatology and Universalism (1876); Short Studies in Ecclesiastical History and Biography (1884); and Short Studies, Ethical and Religious (1885).