GWATKIN, HENRY MELVILL English theological scholar, was born at Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire, on July 3o, 1844, and was educated at Shrewsbury and St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1868 he became a fellow of St. John's, and in 1874 theological lecturer. He succeeded Creighton as Dixie professor of ecclesiastical history at Cambridge (1891) . He died at Cambridge on Nov. 14, 1916.
His chief works were Studies of Arianism (1882) ; The Knowledge of God (1906, the published version of his Gifford lectures) ; and Early Church History (1909).