English theological scholar, born at Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire, on the 30th of July 1844, the youngest son of the Rev. R. Gwatkin, formerly tutor at St. John’s College, Cambridge. He was educated at Shrewsbury and St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he graduated in theology in 1868, taking the Carus prize for Greek in 1865 and 1869, and the Tyrwhitt Hebrew prize in 1870. In 1868 he became a fellow of St. John’s, and in 1874 theological lecturer. He succeeded Creighton as Dixie professor of ecclesiastical history at Cambridge (1891) and in 1903 gave the Gifford lectures at Edinburgh. He died at Cambridge on the 14th of November 1916.
His chief works were Studies of Arianism (1882); The Knowledge of God (1906, the published version of his Gifford lectures) and Early Church History (1909).
