Henry Daniel

Charles Henry Olive Daniel (30 September 1836 – 6 September 1919) was a British classicist, Anglican clergyman and printer. Having been a lecturer in classics at King's College, London, he was elected a fellow of Worcester College, Oxford in 1863. He was ordained as a deacon in the Church of England in 1864 and went on to serve his college as a tutor, bursar and chaplain. He was elected provost of Worcester College in 1903, serving until his death in 1919. In 1874, he also established the Daniel Press, a private press.

Early life and education Daniel was born on 30 September 1836 in Wareham, Dorset, England, as the eldest son of the Reverend Alfred Daniel and Eliza Anne ( Cruttwell). Two years after his birth, his father was appointed perpetual curate of Frome, Somerset, and it was there that he spent the rest of his childhood. In 1854, aged only 17, he was awarded a scholarship to Worcester College, Oxford, to study Literae humaniores (i.e. classics). However, in 1863, he was elected to a fellow of his alma mater Worcester College and so he left London to return to the University of Oxford. or in 1864.

The Daniel Press was inherited by Daniel's nephew, (1888–1955), who used it to print and publish his own His Majesty's Valiants: Being a Short Account of Valiant Deeds Accomplished by the King's and Queen's Ships of that Name Between the Years 1759 and 1922 in 1923, to Emily Daniel's chagrin. H. M. Daniel, a Royal Navy officer, was famously court-martialled in the Royal Oak affair of 1928 and subsequently worked as a journalist.