Oxenham, Henry Nutcombe

Roman Catholic; b. at Harrow, Eng., Nov. 15, 1829; educated at Balliol College, Oxford; graduated B.A. (second cla in cla ics) 1850, M.A. 1854; held cui'acies from 1854 to 1857; joined the Roman-Catholic Church in 1857, and was succe ively in the London Oratory (1859-60), profe or at St. Edmund's College, Ware (1860), and master at the Oratory School, Birmingham, 1861; resigned at Christmas of that year. He is the author of numerous review articles, of the English translation of Dollinger's First Age of the Church (London, 1866, 3d ed. 1877) and Lectures on Re-union of the Churches (1872), and of vol. 2 of Hefele's History of the Councils of the Church (1876); and of the following original works: Poems, 1854, 3d ed. 1871 Church Parties, 1857; Catholic Doctrine of the Atonement, 1865, 3d ed. 1881; Recollections of Obe rammer gau, 1872, 2d ed. 1880; Catholic Eschatology and Universalism, 1876, 2d ed. 1878; Short Studies in Ecclesiastical History and Biography, 1884; Short Studies, Ethical and Religious, 1885. P. p.