Henry Christmas

Henry Christmas (1811 – 10 March 1868),[1] at the end of his life going by the surname Noel-Fearn, was an English clergyman, a man of letters and editor of periodicals, known also as a numismatist.

Born in London in 1811, he was the only son of Robert Noble Christmas of Taunton, by Jane, daughter of Samuel Fearn.

[2] He was ordained in 1837, and after serving several curacies was in 1841 appointed librarian and secretary of Sion College, holding the office till 1848.

Christmas collected British, Saxon, and English silver and copper coins, and also specimens of the Scotch, Irish, and Anglo-Gallic series.

Portions of the text and the wood-blocks of coins prepared for Christmas's work were by H. Montagu in Copper, Tin, and Bronze Coinage of England (1885).