Graham Ingham

Photograph of Lagos Mission in 1885. Back row: W. Morgan, Chas. Phillips, J. White, Archdeacon Hamilton, Nathaniel Johnson, Isaac Oluwole, R.E. Willoughby Middle row: Rev. V.S. Wright, Mrs. Ingham, Bishop Ingham, Mrs Darwin Fox, Rev. James Johnson, Rev. J.W. Dickinson Front row: Rev. F.W.Dodd, Rev. W. Darwin Fox

The Rt Rev Ernest Graham Ingham, DD, MA was an eminent Anglican priest and author at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.

Ernest Graham Ingham was born in Bermuda on 30 January 1851, the seventh child and third son of The Honourable Samuel Saltus Ingham, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Bermuda.[1] He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1877. He was Organizing Secretary of the CMS for West Yorkshire [2] and then Vicar of St Matthew’s, Leeds[3] until his elevation to the Episcopate as the 5th Bishop of Sierra Leone.[4] On returning to England he was Rector of Stoke-next-Guildford from 1897 to 1904, Home Secretary of the Church Missionary Society until 1912 and finally Vicar of St Jude’s, Southsea. He died on 9 April 1926.

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References

  1. ↑ Genealogical web site
  2. ↑ Who was Who 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X.
  3. ↑ Church web-site
  4. ↑ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Henry Cheetham		 Bishop of Sierra Leone
1883 – 1897 		Succeeded by
John Taylor Smith