Leonard Elliott Elliot-Binns

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Canon Leonard Elliott Elliot-Binns (September 18, 1885–1963) was an English historian and theologian, whose works covered a broad range of topics in English and Western church history, as well as the history of the Biblical era.

Born at Manchester, he was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Elliot-Binns was ordained into the Church of England in 1913, serving as chaplain of Ridley Hall for two years before going into parish work. Most of his life as a parish priest was spent in the West Country.

He died at Northampton in 1963, aged 77.

[edit] Major works

• The Development of English Theology in the Later Nineteenth Century (1952)
• English Thought 1860 -1900 (1956)
• The Evangelical Movement In The English Church (1928)
• Religion in the Victorian Era
• The Beginnings of Western Christendom
• From Moses to Elisha: Israel to the End of the Ninth Century BC
• The story of England's Church
• Innocent III
• Medieval Cornwall. Published by Methuen & Co, London
• Galilean Christianity (Studies in Biblical theology)
• The book of Numbers: With introduction and notes
• The Church of St. Andrew, Plymouth: A short historical & descriptive guide
• Erasmus the reformer,: A study in restatement; being the Hulsean lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge for 1921-1922