Professor Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1844-1916) was an English theologian and church historian. He was born at Barrow-on- Soar, Leicestershire. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. He became Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History of the University of Cambridge in 1891, retiring in 1912. His works include: Studies of Arianism (1882), The Arian Controversy (1889), The Meaning of Ecclesiastical History (1891), Selections from Early Writers: Illustrative of Church History to the Time of Constantine (1893), The Church Past and Present: A Review of its History (as editor) (1900), The Eye for Spiritual Things, and Other Sermons (1906), The Knowledge of God and its Historical Development (2 volumes) (1906), Early Church History to A. D. 313 (1909), The Cambridge Medieval History, Volume I (as editor with J. P. Whitney) (1911), The Cambridge Medieval History, Volume II (as editor with J. B. Bury) (1913), The Confirmation Rubric: Whom Does it Bind (1914), Britain's Case Against Germany (1917), Church and State in England to the Death of Queen Anne (1917) and Sacrifice of Thankfulness (edited by L. de L. Gwatkin) (1917).