Westcott House, Cambridge

Coordinates: 52°12′30″N 0°07′22″E / 52.208395°N 0.122663°E / 52.208395; 0.122663

Westcott House old court

Westcott House is a Church of England theological college based in Jesus Lane located in the centre of the university city of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.^[1] Its main activity is training people for ordained ministry in Anglican churches. Westcott House is a founder member of the Cambridge Theological Federation.

The college, now firmly within the Liberal Catholic tradition of the Church of England, has its origin in the Cambridge Clergy Training School, which was founded by Brooke Foss Westcott, then Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, in 1881.^[2]

Principals of Westcott House

All the principals of the Clergy Training School and of Westcott House have thus far been ordained Anglican priests.

1887–1901: Frederic Chase
1901–1911: Henry Knight
1911–1916: Charles Lambert

1916–1919: Closed during World War I.

1919–1943: Bertram Cunningham
1943–1947: William Greer
1948–1961: Kenneth Carey
1962–1972: Peter Walker
1972–1981: Mark Santer
1981–1993: Rupert Hoare
1993–2006: Michael Roberts
2006–2015: Martin Seeley^[2]

Notable staff

Besides the aforementioned principals, notable staff have included:

Spencer Carpenter, vice-principal; later Dean of Exeter
The Lord Habgood (John Habgood), vice-principal; later Archbishop of York
Angela Tilby, former tutor and vice-principal
Alan Webster, chaplain and vice-principal; later Dean of St Paul's
The Lord Williams of Oystermouth (Rowan Williams), chaplain, tutor and director of studies; later Archbishop of Canterbury and Master of Magdalene
Edward Wynn, vice-principal; later Bishop of Ely

Notable alumni

See also Category:Alumni of Westcott House, Cambridge.

Notable alumni of Westcott House and of the Clergy Training School include:

Charles Freer Andrews, missionary, educator and social reformer in India
Robert Atwell, current Bishop of Exeter
Paul Badham, Professor emeritus of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Wales, Lampeter
Simon Bailey, writer and priest
Andrew Ballard, retired Archdeacon of Manchester
David Bartleet, Bishop suffragan of Tonbridge
Dewi Bridges, Bishop of Swansea and Brecon
Gareth Bennett, academic renowned for criticising the then-Archbishop
Chiu Ban It, Bishop of Singapore
Chris Chivers, a current vicar in London
Stephen Conway, current Bishop of Ely
Christopher Cunliffe, current Archdeacon of Derby
Don Cupitt, theologian, writer, broadcaster and Cambridge professor
Henry de Candole, Bishop suffragan of Knaresborough and liturgist
Griff Dines, Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow
Maurice O'Connor Drury, left Westcott after one year
David Edwards, Provost of Southwark
Peter Eliot, Archdeacon of Worcester
Ralph Emmerson, Bishop suffragan of Knaresborough
Br Michael (Fisher) SSF, Bishop suffragan of St Germans
Launcelot Fleming, Bishop of Norwich
Frank Ford, Archdeacon of the East Riding
David Galliford, Bishop suffragan of Bolton
Herbert Gwyer, Bishop of George
Stuart Hallam, a current Naval chaplain
Barry Hollowell, Bishop of Calgary
Forbes Horan, Bishop suffragan of Tewkesbury
Anthony Hoskyns-Abrahall, Bishop suffragan of Lancaster
Noel Hudson, Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak
Andrew Hunter, former MP for Basingstoke
Robert Keable, novelist and missionary
John Lewis, Archdeacon of Hereford
Barry Morgan, current Archbishop of Wales and Bishop of Llandaff
Edward Patey, Dean of Liverpool
Guy Pentreath, chaplain and headmaster
John Polkinghorne, theoretical physicist and theologian
William Rees, Archdeacon of St Asaph
David Reindorp, current media vicar
John Richardson, Archdeacon of Derby
John Robinson, Bishop suffragan of Woolwich
Patrick Rodger, Bishop of Oxford
The Lord Sandford (John Edmondson), member of the House of Lords
Paul Shinji Sasaki, Bishop of Tokyo
Allan Shaw, Dean of Ely
Shimun XXIII Eshai, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East
Percival Smith, Archdeacon of Lynn
Owen Spencer-Thomas, current journalist
Mervyn Stockwood, Bishop of Southwark
Graham Ward, current Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University
Richard Watson, Bishop of Burnley
David Wilbourne, current Assistant Bishop of Llandaff
Trevor Willmott, current Bishop of Dover
Kenneth Woollcombe, Bishop of Oxford
Barry Till, academic and educator
Cherry Vann, current Archdeacon of Rochdale
Benjamin Vaughan, Bishop of Swansea and Brecon

Gallery

The Old Court at Westcott House
Old Court Lawn
All Saints Church, Jesus Lane, Cambridge

References