Arthur Headlam

The Right Reverend
Arthur Headlam
CH
Bishop of Gloucester
Arthur Headlam
Diocese Diocese of Gloucester
Installed 1923
Term ended 1945
Predecessor Edgar Gibson
Successor Wilfred Askwith
Orders
Ordination 1888
Personal details
Born (1862-08-02)2 August 1862
Whorlton, County Durham
Died 17 January 1947(1947-01-17) (aged 84)
Nationality British
Denomination Anglican
Parents Arthur William Headlam
Agnes Favell
Spouse Evelyn Persis Wingfield
Previous post Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford
Education Winchester College
Alma mater New College, Oxford

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

Biography

Headlam was born in Whorlton, County Durham, the son of its vicar, Arthur William Headlam (1826–1908), by his first wife, Agnes Favell.[1] The historian James Wycliffe Headlam was his younger brother. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he read Greats. He was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford from 1885. He was ordained in 1888, and became Rector of Welwyn in 1896. In 1900 Headlam married Evelyn Persis Wingfield.[1]

He was Professor of Dogmatic Theology at King's College London from 1903–1916, where he served as Principal from 1903 to 1912 and as the first Dean from 1908 until 1913.[2] He was Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford from 1918 to 1923. His 1920 Bampton Lectures showed the theme of ecumenism that would preoccupy him.[3] At the time of the 1926 General Strike, he opposed the intervention of some of the other bishops.[4]

He was influential in the Church of England's council on foreign relations in the 1930s, chairing the Committee on Relations with Episcopal Churches.[5] He supported the Protestant Reich Church in Germany, and was a critic of the Confessing Church. He is thus generally considered an 'appeaser'.[6]

He was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 1921 Birthday Honours for his services at Oxford.[7]

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Notes
  1. 1 2 Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929). Armorial families : a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour (7th ed.). London: Hurst & Blackett. pp. 905–906. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  2. "Dean's Office Records". King's College London. 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  3. The Rt. Rev. Frederick Burgess, D.D., Bishop of Long Island (1921). "The Lambeth Appeal". The Catholic Faith and the Religious Situation. New York: The Churchmen's Alliance. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  4. Grimley, Matthew (2004). Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England: Liberal Anglican Theories of the State Between the Wars. UK: Oxford University Press. p. 121. ISBN 9780199270897.
  5. Carpenter, Edward (1997). Cantuar: The Archbishops in their Office (3rd ed.). London: Mowbray. p. 450.
  6. Clements, Keith (1999). Faith on the Frontier: A Life of J. H. Oldham. Edinburgh: T & T Clark. p. 343.
  7. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 32346. p. 4535. 4 June 1921.
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Academic offices
Preceded by
Archibald Robertson
Principal of King's College London
19031912
Succeeded by
Ronald Montagu Burrows
New office Dean of King's College London
1908–1912
Succeeded by
Alfred Caldecott
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
19231945
Succeeded by
Wilfred Marcus Askwith
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