Herbert Brook Workman was a leading Methodist

Methodism

Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother...

 and secretary of the Wesleyan Methodist Secondary Schools Trust when they took over Elmfield College

Elmfield College

Elmfield College, York , originally called "Connexional College" or "Jubilee College" in honour of the Primitive Methodist Silver Jubilee in 1860, was a Primitive Methodist college on the outskirts of Heworth, York, England, near Monk Stray.-Primitive Methodism in York:The college was a national...

 in 1928.

Workman was born in London and educated at Kingswood School

Kingswood School

Kingswood School, referred to as 'Kingswood', is an independent day and boarding school located in Bath, Somerset, England. The school is coeducational and educates some 950 children aged 3 to 18. It is notable for being founded by John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, in 1748...

 and Owens College, Manchester. He entered the Wesleyan

Wesleyanism

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 ministry in 1885 and served as a Circuit minister in England and Scotland until 1903 when he was appointed Principal of Westminster College

Westminster College, Oxford

Westminster College was a college of higher education in England. The college was founded in London in 1851 as a training institute for teachers for Methodist schools, and moved to Oxford in 1959. Following the move, the college also began to offer degree courses in Theology and Education. In 2000,...

. In 1930 he was elected President of the Wesleyan Conference.

A distinguished historian, Workman was Cole Lecturer at Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University

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 in Tennessee in 1916 and temporary professor of Methodist Church history at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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 in 1927. He published extensively in the field of Medieval Church history as well as Methodism.

Workman's nickname was "Prinny" and as he was a key figure in the closure of Elmfield College

Elmfield College

Elmfield College, York , originally called "Connexional College" or "Jubilee College" in honour of the Primitive Methodist Silver Jubilee in 1860, was a Primitive Methodist college on the outskirts of Heworth, York, England, near Monk Stray.-Primitive Methodism in York:The college was a national...

, he came in for some satire whenthe closure was announced: several angry teachers at Elmfield drew a satirical coat-of-arms on the blackboard in the shape of an upturned dustbin with Dr Workman's legs protruding over the motto "Prinny suncus tiperi ashes" (Booth: 40).

Publications of H.B. Workman

• 1886?: Persecution in the Early Church
• 1898 & 1912: The Church of the West in the Middle Ages
• 1900: In The Ice World Of Himalaya. Among The Peaks And Passes Of Ladakh, Nubra, Suru, And Baltistan by F.B. & W.H Workman
• 1901: The Dawn of the Reformation, Vols 1 & 2
• 1903: by relatives (brothers?) of Workman: Ice-Bound Heights Of The Mustagh. An Account Of Two Seasons Of Pioneer Exploration And High Climbing In The Baltistan Himalaya by F.B. & W.H Workman
• 1904: The Letters of John Hus (with Robert Martin Pope)
• 1906: Persecution in the Early Church: a chapter in the history of renunciation
• 1908: Recent Light on the New Testament
• 1909: A New History of Methodism (with illustrations and a bibliography by William John Townsend, George Eayrs)
• 1910: The Martyrs of the Early Church
• 1911: Christian Thought to the Reformation
• 1912, 1917 Methodism
• 1913: The Evolution Of The Monastic Ideal From The Earliest Times Down To The Coming Of The Friars
• 1913, 1915 The Martyrs of the Early Church
• 1916: The Foundation of Modern Religion: A Study in the Task and the Contribution of the Medieval Church (The Cole lectures of 1916 delivered before Vanderbilt University
  Vanderbilt University
  Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the...
  
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• 1921: The Place of Methodism in the Catholic Church
• 1926: John Wyclif: A study of the Medieval Church
• 1929: Wyclif Select English Writings (with Herbert E. Winn)
• 1936: John Wesley and Education by Alfred H. Body. Foreword By H.B. Workman
• 1960: Persecution in the Early Church