A prelude to Henson's determined effort to secure the place of the Revised Version at the lectern in Westminster Abbey, primarily on grounds of conviction but also because of the close association of the Abbey in its creation: Retrospect, I, 57. The work of revision, by members of various protestant churches in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, began in 1870 in the Jerusalem chamber of the Abbey: Mark D. Chapman, 'New Testament revision company (act. 1870-81)', ODNB.

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