Henry Goulburn, chancellor of the exchequer in the ministries of Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington, he was born in London, and was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford.

In 1849, he had succeeded Tait as headmaster of Rugby,[6] but in 1857 he resigned, and accepted the charge of Quebec Chapel, Marylebone.

In 1866, he was made Dean of Norwich, and in that office exercised a long and marked influence on church life.

A strong Conservative and a churchman of traditional orthodoxy, he was a keen antagonist of higher criticism and of all forms of rationalism.

[7] His Thoughts on Personal Religion (1862) and The Pursuit of Holiness were well received; and he wrote John William Burgon, Late Dean of Chichester: A Biography, With Extracts from His Letters and Early Journals (two volumes; 1892) about his friend Dean Burgon, with whose doctrinal views he was substantially in agreement.