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Hensley Henson

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Hensley Henson

Herbert Hensley Henson (8 November 1863 – 27 September 1947) was an English Anglican cleric, scholar and polemicist. He was Bishop of Hereford from 1918 to 1920 and Bishop of Durham from 1920 to 1939. Henson's father was a devout follower of the Christian sect the Plymouth Brethren and disapproved of schools. Henson was not allowed to go to school until he was fourteen, and was largely self-educated. He was admitted to the University of Oxford, and gained a first-class degree in 1884. In the same year he was elected as a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and began to make a reputation as a speaker. He was ordained priest in 1888. Feeling a vocation to minister to the urban poor, Henson served in the East End of London and Barking before becoming the chaplain of Ilford Hospital Chapel, a 12th-century hospice in Ilford, in 1895. In 1900 he was appointed to the prominent post of rector of St Margaret's, Westminster, and canon of Westminster Abbey. While there, and subsequently as Dean of Durham (1913–1918), he wrote prolifically and sometimes controversially. He was tolerant of a wide range of theological views; because of this, some members of the Anglo-Catholic wing of the Church of England accused him of heresy and sought unsuccessfully to block his appointment as Bishop of Hereford in 1917. In 1920, after two years in the largely rural diocese of Hereford, Henson returned to Durham in the industrial north-east of England as its bishop. The area was badly affected by an economic depression. Henson was opposed to strikes, trade unions and socialism, and for a time his outspoken denunciation of them made him unpopular in the diocese. Some of his opinions changed radically during his career: at first a strong advocate of the Church of England's continued establishment as the country's official church, he came to believe that politicians could not be trusted to legislate properly on ecclesiastical matters, and he espoused the cause of disestablishment. He campaigned against prohibition, the exploitation of foreign workers by British companies, and fascist and Nazi aggression. He supported reform of the divorce laws, the controversial 1928 revision of the Book of Common Prayer, and ecumenism.

Infobox

Church
Church of England
Province
York
Diocese
Durham
In office
1920–1939
Predecessor
Handley Moule
Successor
Alwyn Williams
Other posts
Bishop of Hereford (1918–1920) Dean of Durham (1913–1918)
Ordination
1887 (deacon) 1888 (priest)
Consecration
1918
Born
8 November 1863London, England
Died
27 September 1947(1947-09-27) (aged 83)Hintlesham, England
Buried
Durham Cathedral, England

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Preceded byGeorge Kitchin
Preceded byGeorge Kitchin
Church of England titles
Preceded byGeorge Kitchin
Church of England titles
Dean of Durham 1912–1918
Church of England titles
Succeeded byJames Welldon
Preceded byJohn Percival
Preceded byJohn Percival
Church of England titles
Preceded byJohn Percival
Church of England titles
Bishop of Hereford 1917–1920
Church of England titles
Succeeded byLinton Smith
Preceded byHandley Moule
Preceded byHandley Moule
Church of England titles
Preceded byHandley Moule
Church of England titles
Bishop of Durham 1920–1939
Church of England titles
Succeeded byAlwyn Williams
Professional and academic associations
Professional and academic associations
Church of England titles
Professional and academic associations
Preceded byHenry Gee
Preceded byHenry Gee
Church of England titles
Preceded byHenry Gee
Church of England titles
President of the Surtees Society 1939–1945
Church of England titles
Succeeded byAlwyn Williams
Church of England titles
Preceded byGeorge Kitchin
Dean of Durham 1912–1918
Succeeded byJames Welldon
Preceded byJohn Percival
Bishop of Hereford 1917–1920
Succeeded byLinton Smith
Preceded byHandley Moule
Bishop of Durham 1920–1939
Succeeded byAlwyn Williams
Professional and academic associations
Preceded byHenry Gee
President of the Surtees Society 1939–1945
Succeeded byAlwyn Williams

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  2. All Souls describes itself as primarily an academic research institution. Although its fellows are involved in teaching
  3. The biographer John Peart-Binns notes that from his £200 a year Henson made substantial contributions to his family as h
  4. Salisbury owned much of the land around St Margaret's, Barking. As a former fellow of All Souls he knew Henson, and they
  5. After the second miscarriage, Henson wrote in his journal, "What a second holocaust of hopes & loves within half a year!
  6. Although the company attempted to impugn Henson's reputation, the British government appointed a select committee to inv
  7. The Abbey is a royal peculiar and at St Margaret's the rectors, unlike other parish priests, were not formally installed
  8. Gore's specific objection was not to Henson's preaching in a nonconformist establishment, but his doing so within anothe
  9. Lloyd George was from a nonconformist family, like the majority of Welsh people, though agnostic himself.
  10. Henson's view has generally prevailed over that of Gore and his followers: in a study published in 1998, the theologian
  11. Theoretically, the power to choose whom to appoint remained (and still remains) with the monarch, but the exercise of th
  12. Moule and his two immediate predecessors at Durham, Joseph Lightfoot and Brooke Foss Westcott, had all been all professo
  13. Welldon had been Bishop of Calcutta from 1898 to 1902, before resigning and returning to Britain, where he served as Dea
  14. Welldon's enthusiasm for teetotalism did not extend to himself: Henson recorded in his journal that Sir David Drummond m
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