Henry Whitehead (bishop) explained
Henry Whitehead (19 December 185314 April 1947) was an eminent Anglican bishop in the last decade of the 19th century[1] and the first quarter of the 20th.Whitehead was educated at Sherborne and Trinity College, Oxford.[2] Ordained in 1879,[3] his first post was as a preacher at St Nicholas, Abingdon.[4] He then emigrated to India where he was principal of Bishop’s College, Calcutta[5] from 1883 to 1899. On St Peter's Day (29 June) 1899, he was consecrated a bishop by Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral, to serve as the fifth Bishop of Madras,[6] [7] an office he held for 23 years. In 1903 he married Isabel Duncan.[8] A noted author on his adopted country, he died on 14 April 1947.[9] He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).
Whitehead was the brother of the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and the father of the mathematician J. H. C. Whitehead.
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Notes and References
- The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory London, John Phillips, 1900
- [Who's Who|"Who was Who"]
- Book: [[Richard Malden|Malden Richard (ed)]] . Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn) . London . The Field Press. 979. 1920 .
- Web site: Church details . 15 March 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080511202529/http://www.parishes.oxford.anglican.org/abingdon/stnicolas/stnic2e.htm . 11 May 2008 . dead .
- http://anglicanhistory.org/india/bishops1970/ Anglican History
- News: Consecration Of Bishops. . Canterbury Journal, Kentish Times and Farmers' Gazette . 8 July 1899 . . 7 col B . 2016-05-28 .
- [The Times]
- News: Marriage . . Warminster & Westbury Journal, and Wilts County Advertiser . 18 July 1903 . 2016-05-28. 8 col E .
- "Obituary Bishop Whitehead Forty Years In India" The Times Thursday, 17 April 1947; p. 7; Issue 50737; col E
