Henry Whitehead Moss

Henry Whitehead Moss (23 June 1841 – 14 January 1917) was an English scholar.

Early life and education Moss was born at Lincoln. He was educated at Lincoln Grammar School and Shrewsbury before entering St. John's College, Cambridge, where he held a scholarship, in 1860. In 1862, two years after his arrival, he was elected the Craven University scholar, and in 1864 he gained his BA as Senior Classic and was appointed a Fellow and Lecturer of St. John's. He was ordained a Church of England priest in 1866 and graduated M.A. in 1867.

He was Chairman of the Headmasters' Conference from 1899 to 1902.

Personal life and death In 1886, he married Frances Emma Mary Beaufort. They had two sons and four daughters.

Moss lived at Highfield Park in Headington near Oxford towards the end of his life, and was also a prebendary of Hereford Cathedral from 1887 until his death in London in 1917, aged 75. He was buried in Shrewsbury at the General Cemetery in Longden Road; ironically, while in process of choosing a new site for the move of Shrewsbury School, he had rejected an adjacent field after seeing at least six funerals arrive.