Arthur Headlam

The Right Reverend Arthur Cayley Headlam CH (2 August 1862 – 17 January 1947) was an English theologian who served as Bishop of Gloucester from 1923 to 1945.

Born in Whorlton, County Durham, the son of its vicar (the historian James Wycliffe Headlam was his brother), he was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he read Greats. He was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1885. He was ordained in 1888, and became Rector of Welwyn in 1896.

He was Professor of Dogmatic Theology at King's College London from 1903-1916, where he served as Principal from 1903 to 1912. He was Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford from 1918 to 1923. His 1920 Bampton Lectures showed the theme of ecumenism that would preoccupy him.^[1] At the time of the 1926 General Strike, he opposed the intervention of some of the other bishops.^[2]

He was influential in the Church of England's council on foreign relations in the 1930s, chairing the Committee on Relations with Episcopal Churches.^[3] He supported the Protestant Reich Church in Germany, and was a critic of the Confessing Church. He is thus generally considered an 'Appeaser'.^[4]

He was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 1921 Birthday Honours for his services at Oxford.^[5]

Works

Authority and Archaeology, Sacred and Profane: Essays on the Relation of Monuments to Biblical and Classical Literature (1899) with S. R. Driver, Ernest A. Gardner, F. Ll. Griffith, F. Haverfield, and D. G. Hogarth
Criticism of the New Testament, St. Margaret's Lectures, 1902, with William Sanday, Frederick Kenyon, F. Crawford Burkitt, and J. H. Bernhard
The Miracles of the New Testament (1914) Moorhouse Lectures for 1914
Christian Unity (1930)
The Doctrine of the Church and Christian Reunion

Footnotes

^ The Catholic Faith and the Religious Situation
^ Matthew Grimley (2004), Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England: Liberal Anglican Theories of the State Between the Wars, p. 121.
^ Edward Carpenter, Cantuar: The Archbishops in Their Office, p. 450.
^ Keith Clements, Faith on the Frontier: A Life of J. H. Oldham, p. 343.
^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 32346. p. 4535. 4 June 1921.

References

Biography, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Agnes Headlam-Morley, memoir in A. C. Headlam, The Fourth Gospel as History (1948)
Ronald C. D. Jasper, Arthur Cayley Headlam: life and letters of a bishop (1960)
E. C. Prichard, Arthur Cayley Headlam: Bishop of Gloucester, 1923-45 - A Life

Academic offices
Preceded by Archibald Robertson	Principal of King's College London 1903–1912	Succeeded by Ronald Montagu Burrows
Preceded by Henry Scott Holland	Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford 1918—1923	Succeeded by Henry Leighton Goudge
Church of England titles
Preceded by Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson	Bishop of Gloucester 1923–1945	Succeeded by Wilfred Marcus Askwith

Principals of King's College London

William Otter (1831) · Hugh James Rose (1836) · John Lonsdale (1838) · Richard William Jelf (1843) · Alfred Barry (1868) · Henry Wace (1883) · Archibald Robertson (1897) · Arthur Cayley Headlam (1903) · Ronald Montagu Burrows (1913) · Sir Ernest Barker (1920) · Sir William Reginald Halliday (1928) · Sir Peter Noble (1952) · General Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1968) · Sir Richard Way (1975) · Lord Cameron of Balhousie (1980) · Lord Sutherland of Houndwood (1985) · John Beynon (1990) · Arthur Lucas (1993) · Rick Trainor (2004)

Bishops of Gloucester

Charles Ellicott • Edgar Gibson • Arthur Headlam • Clifford Woodward • Wilfred Askwith • Basil Guy • John Yates • Peter Ball • David Bentley • Michael Perham

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Name	Headlam, Arthur Cayley
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Date of birth	2 August 1862
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Date of death	17 January 1947
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