The Rt Rev Henry Whitehead, DD was an eminent Anglican clergyman in the last decade of the 19th century[1] and the first quarter of the 20th.
He was born on December 19, 1863 and educated at Sherborne and Trinity College, Oxford.[2] Ordained in 1879 his first post was as a preacher at St Nicholas, Abingdon.[3] He then emigrated to India where he was Principal of Bishop’s College, Calcutta[4] from 1883 to 1899; and then the 5th Bishop of Madras,[5] an office he held for 23 years. A noted author on his adopted country,[6] he died on April 14, 1947.[7]
Whitehead was the brother of the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and the father of the mathematician J. H. C. Whitehead.
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Preceded by Frederick Gell |
Bishop of Madras 1899 – 1922 |
Succeeded by Edward Harry Mansfield Waller |
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