Frederic Chase

The Very Reverend Frederic Henry Chase (21 February 1853, London – 23 September 1925, Bexhill) was a British academic and Bishop of Ely.

The only son of the Revd Charles Frederic Chase, rector of St Andrew by the Wardrobe and St Anne Blackfriars, and Susan Mary Alliston. Chase was educated at King's College School, London and Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in classics in 1876 after receiving the Powys Medal the previous year.

He was ordained deacon in 1876 and priest in 1877, and briefly worked as Curate of Sherborne before returning to Cambridge in 1879 He was a lecturer in divinity at Pembroke College, Cambridge from 1881 to 1890, and at Christ's College from 1893. In 1884 he became tutor of the Clergy Training School at Westcott House, Cambridge, and in 1887 became Principal of the School. He was elected to give the Hulsean Lectures for 1900. In late 1901 Chase was elected President of Queens' College, Cambridge and the following November he was also elected Norris Professor of Divinity.

Three years later, in 1905, he was consecrated as Bishop of Ely. He resigned as bishop in 1924 and died in 1925. He is buried in Brookwood Cemetery.

Grave of Frederic Chase in Brookwood Cemetery

Chase was known for research into the Bezan and Syro-Latin texts, including the Codex Bezae.

• Chrysostom (1887)
• The Lord´s Prayer in the Early Church (1891)
• F. H. Chase, The Old Syriac Element in the Text of Codex Bezae, MacMillan, 1893.