Henry Whitehead (bishop)

Henry Whitehead (19 December 1853 – 14 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,[6] to serve as the fifth Bishop of Madras,[7][8] an office he held for 23 years. In 1903 he married Isabel Duncan.[9] A noted author on his adopted country, he died on 14 April 1947.[10] 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.

Publications

• Whitehead, Henry (1916). The Village Gods of South India. Humphrey Milford. ISBN 9780554515168.
• Whitehead, Henry (1924). Indian Problems in Religion, Education, Politics. Constable.
• Anderson, George; Whitehead, Henry (1932). Christian Education in India. Macmillan.

References

1. The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory London, John Phillips, 1900
2. "Who was Who"1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
3. Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 979.
4. "Church details". Archived from the original on 11 May 2008. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
5. Anglican History
6. "Consecration of bishops". Church Times. No. 1901. 30 June 1899. p. 783. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 30 October 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
7. "Consecration Of Bishops". Canterbury Journal, Kentish Times and Farmers' Gazette. 8 July 1899. p. 7 col B. Retrieved 28 May 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
8. The Times, Monday, 13 February 1899; p. 12; Issue 35751; col A Ecclesiastical Intelligence New Bishop of Calcutta
9. "Marriage". Warminster & Westbury Journal, and Wilts County Advertiser. 18 July 1903. p. 8 col E. Retrieved 28 May 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
10. "Obituary Bishop Whitehead Forty Years In India" The Times Thursday, 17 April 1947; p. 7; Issue 50737; col E

Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by Frederick Gell	Bishop of Madras 1899–1922	Succeeded by Edward Waller