Leonard Elliott Elliot-Binns

Canon Leonard Elliott Elliot-Binns (September 18 1885–1963) was an English historian and theologian, whose works covered a broad range of topics in English and Western church history, as well as the history of the Biblical era.

Born at Manchester, he was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Elliot-Binns was ordained into the Church of England in 1913, serving as chaplain of Ridley Hall for two years before going into parish work. Most of his life as a parish priest was spent in the West Country.

He died at Northampton in 1963, aged 77.

Major works

*"The Development of English Theology in the Later Nineteenth Century" (1952)
*"English Thought 1860 -1900" (1956)
*"The Evangelical Movement In The English Church" (1928)
*"Religion in the Victorian Era"
*"The Beginnings of Western Christendom"
*"From Moses to Elisha: Israel to the End of the Ninth Century BC"
*"The story of England's Church"
*"Innocent III"
*"Medieval Cornwall". Published by Methuen & Co, London
*"Galilean Christianity (Studies in Biblical theology)"
*"The book of Numbers: With introduction and notes"
*"The Church of St. Andrew, Plymouth: A short historical & descriptive guide"
*"Erasmus the reformer,: A study in restatement; being the Hulsean lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge for 1921-1922"