Arthur Headlam

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


Arthur Headlam

Bishop of Gloucester
DioceseGloucester
Installed1923
Term ended1945
PredecessorEdgar Gibson
SuccessorWilfred Askwith
Orders
Ordination29 September 1888
by John Mackarness
Consecration25 January 1923
Personal details
Born(1862-08-02)2 August 1862
Died17 January 1947(1947-01-17) (aged 84)
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglican
ParentsArthur William Headlam
Agnes Favell
Spouse
Evelyn Persis Wingfield
(m. 1900)
Previous post(s)Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford
Alma materNew College, Oxford

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 to 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] During the Nazi rise to power in 1933 he blamed German Jews for causing their own persecution, writing that they caused "the violence of the Russian Communists" and "Socialist communities" and were "not altogether a pleasant element in German, and in particular Berlin life."[7]

He was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 1921 Birthday Honours for his services at Oxford.[8]

Selected publications

References

Notes

  1. 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. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  3. Frederick Burgess (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. Bouverie, Tim (2019). Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War (1 ed.). New York: Tim Duggan Books. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-451-49984-4. OCLC 1042099346.
  8. "No. 32346". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 June 1921. p. 4535.

Bibliography

Further reading

  • Jasper, Ronald (1960). Arthur Cayley Headlam: Life and Letters of a Bishop. London: Faith Press.
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