Henry Nutcombe Oxenham (15 November 1829 – 23 March 1888) was an English ecclesiologist, theologian, author and translator.
[2] At first his thoughts turned towards the priesthood, and he spent some time at the London Oratory and at St Edmund's College, Ware.
[3] In 1863 he made a prolonged visit to Germany, where he studied the language and literature, and formed a close friendship with Döllinger, whose First Age of the Christian Church he translated in 1866.
In 1876, he translated the second volume of Bishop Hefele's History of the Councils of the Church, and published several pamphlets on the reunion of Christendom.
An obituary in the The Animal's Defender and Zoophilist noted that "the anti-vivisection cause has lost a devoted adherent and a powerful champion by the recent death of Rev.