LC control no. | n 94079882 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Wilson, H. A. (Henry Austin), 1854-1927 |
Variant(s) | Wilson, Henry Austin, 1854-1927 |
Associated country | Great Britain Scotland |
Located | Oxford (England) |
Birth date | 18541207 |
Death date | 19270618 |
Place of birth | Ayr (Scotland) |
Place of death | Kilmarnock (Scotland) |
Field of activity | Liturgics Liturgies, Early Christian |
Affiliation | Magdalen College (University of Oxford) Henry Bradshaw Society |
Profession or occupation | Scholars |
Found in | The missal of Robert of JumieĢges, 1994: CIP t.p. (H.A. Wilson) LC data base, (hdg.: Wilson, Henry Austin, 1854-1927; usage: H.A. Wilson; Henry Austin Wilson) Oxford DNB online, 17 Jan. 2014 (Henry Austin Wilson, liturgical scholar; born in Ayr on 7 December 1854; in 1876 he was elected a fellow of Magdalen College, where he lived and worked for more than forty years; during this long span he held many of the offices of the college, occasionally as dean of divinity (he was ordained priest in 1880) and continuously as librarian from 1881; the principal activity of Wilson's life was scholarship, primarily in the history of the Western medieval liturgy; his efforts were most conspicuously exercised through the Henry Bradshaw Society for the Editing of Rare Liturgical Texts; this was founded in 1890, and Wilson was its honorary secretary from 1895 until his death; in 1919 he retired to his native Scotland, partly to help with an Anglican mission in Ayrshire, and died at Kilmarnock on 18 June 1927) |
Associated language | eng |