Henry Melvill Gwatkin (30 July 1844 – 14 November 1916) was an English theologian and church historian.
Gwatkin was born at Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire, the youngest son of the Rev.
Richard Gwatkin,[1] and educated at Shrewsbury and St John's College, Cambridge.
In 1891, was appointed as Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Cambridge, and also transferred as a Fellow to Emmanuel College, serving in those roles until 1912.
[1] Gwatkin died in 1916 and is buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground, Cambridge,[3] with his wife Lucy de Lisle Gwatkin.