Introduction

Biography

Henry was the son of Rev. Ed­ward Stark­ie Shut­tle­worth.

He was edu­cat­ed at St. Ma­ry’s Hall, Ox­ford (BA 1873, MA 1876).

Ordained a dea­con in 1873 and priest in 1873, he was chap­lain at Christ Church, Ox­ford; Mi­nor Ca­non of St. Paul’s; and rector of St. Ni­cho­las, Cole-Abbey, Lond­on, 1883.

He was al­so Pro­fess­or of Pas­tor­al and Li­tur­gi­cal Theo­lo­gy, and Lec­tur­er in Ec­cle­si­as­ti­cal His­to­ry and Eng­lish Li­te­ra­ture, and in the New Tes­ta­ment, at King’s Col­lege, Lon­don.

Works

He com­piled a small Ap­pen­dix to Church Hymns, for use in St. Ni­cho­las’ Church, in which se­ver­al of his own hymns ap­peared. His oth­er works in­clude:

• The Last Words of the Sav­iour (third edi­tion 1879)
• Songs, 1885
• The Place of Mu­sic in Pub­lic Wor­ship (se­cond edi­tion 1893)
• Hymns for Pri­vate Use, 1896