Honorific-Prefix: | The Very Rev'd Professor |
Henry Gee | |
Honorific-Suffix: | FSA |
Office: | Vice-Chancellor of the University of Durham |
Term Start: | 1914 |
Term End: | 1916 |
Predecessor: | Sir George Hare Philipson |
Successor: | Sir William Henry Hadow |
Office2: | Master of University College, Durham |
Term Start2: | 1902 |
Term End2: | 1919 |
Predecessor2: | Alfred Plummer |
Successor2: | The Rev'd Prof Henry Ellershaw |
Office3: | Dean of Gloucester |
Term Start3: | 1918 |
Term End3: | 1938 |
Predecessor3: | Henry Donald Maurice Spence |
Successor3: | Harold Costley-White |
Birth Date: | 1858 |
Death Date: | 1938 |
Alma Mater: | Exeter College, Oxford |
Profession: | Academic and Vice-Chancellor |
Henry Gee, FSA (1858–1938)[1] was an Anglican dean[2] in the first half of the 20th century.[3]
He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford and ordained in 1877.[4] In 1880 he was appointed by Dr. Boultbee as junior tutor at the London College of Divinity, where he later advanced to tutor and vice-principal, until he resigned in January 1900[5] to become Principal of Bishop's College, Ripon. From May 1902 he was Master of University College, Durham[6] and in 1910 was appointed Professor of Church History at Durham University, a post he held for 8 years up to his appointment as Dean of Gloucester. He died on 23 December 1938.[7]