Lewis Hensley

HENSLEY, Lewis. b. Bloomsbury, London, 20 May 1824; d. Walsingham, Norfolk, 1 August 1905. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as Senior Wrangler, the top mathematics undergraduate (1846), and where he remained as Fellow and Tutor (1846-52). He took Holy Orders in 1851, holding curacies in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire before becoming vicar of Hitchin in 1856 (Honorary Canon of St Alban’s Cathedral, 1881). He died at Walsingham, Great Ryburgh, Norfolk, having held the Hitchin living for almost half a century. His publications include Hymns for the Sundays after Trinity (1864) and Hymns for the Minor Sundays from Advent to Whitsuntide (1867), together with a...