Henry Wilson (bishop)

The Rt Rev Henry Albert Wilson , CBE, DD (6 September 1876, Port Bannatyne – 16 July 1961) was an Anglican Christian bishop and author.^[1]

Biography

Henry Albert Wilson was educated at Camberwell Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.^[2]

Ordained presbyter in 1899,^[3] he began his career with a curacy at Christ Church, Hampstead, in London; after which he became Vicar of Norbiton. He was then Rural Dean of Cheltenham, until his elevation to the Episcopate in 1929 as the third Bishop of Chelmsford.^[4] A proposal to expedite divorce – by having divorce cases heard in a magistrates court rather than a higher court – prompted his strenuous objection in 1944: "the landslide in sexual morals" meant that Christianity was "hanging by a thread in this country today".^[5] He resigned in 1950, and retired to Southwold.^[2]

He died 16 July 1961.^[6]

Works

Episcopacy and Unity, 1912
The Master and His Friends, 1925
Your Faith or Your Life, 1940
Reflections of a Back-Bench Bishop, 1948

Notes

↑ “Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
1 2 "Wilson, Henry Albert (WL895HA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
↑ Crockford's clerical directory 1940–1941: Oxford, OUP, 1940
↑ National Archives
↑ Religion: Pretty Pass, Time Magazine, 31 June 1944
↑ Rt. Rev. H. A. Wilson Former Bishop Of Chelmsford The Times Monday, Jul 17, 1961; pg. 18; Issue 55135; col D

Church of England titles
Preceded by Frederic Sumpter Guy Warman	Bishop of Chelmsford 1929–1950	Succeeded by Sherard Falkner Allison

Bishops of Chelmsford

John Watts Ditchfield Guy Warman Henry Wilson Falkner Allison John Tiarks John Trillo John Waine John Perry John Gladwin Stephen Cottrell

Diocese of Chelmsford

Chelmsford Cathedral Bishopscourt, Margaretting Diocesan Office, Chelmsford The Retreat House, Pleshey Waltham Abbey St Peter-on-the-Wall, Bradwell Area scheme (since 1983)

Office holders	The Bishop of Chelmsford, Stephen Cottrell The area Bishop of Bradwell, John Wraw The area Bishop of Barking, Peter Hill The area Bishop of Colchester, Roger Morris AEO: Norman Banks, Bishop suffragan of Richborough The Dean of Chelmsford, Nicholas Henshall The Archdeacon of Chelmsford, David Lowman The Archdeacon of Colchester, Annette Cooper The Archdeacon of West Ham, Elwin Cockett The Archdeacon of Harlow, Martin Webster The Archdeacon of Stansted, Robin King The Archdeacon of Southend, Mina Smallman The Archdeacon of Barking, John Perumbalath

Historic offices	Archdeacon of Essex (1914–1922; renamed West Ham) Provost of Chelmsford (1929–2000; see Dean of Chelmsford)

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