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Arthur Winnington-Ingram

The Right Reverend and Right Honourable
Arthur Winnington-Ingram
Bishop of London
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Arthur Winnington-Ingram circa 1910
Diocese Diocese of London
Elected 17 April 1901 (confirmed)
Term ended 1 September 1939 (retired)
Predecessor Mandell Creighton
Successor Geoffrey Fisher
Other posts Bishop of Stepney
1897–1901
Orders
Ordination Geoffrey Fisher
Consecration 30 November 1897
Personal details
Born (1858-01-26)26 January 1858
Stanford-on-Teme, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
Died 26 May 1946(1946-05-26) (aged 88)
Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
Nationality British
Denomination Anglican
Parents Edward Winnington-Ingram and Louisa Pepys
Education Marlborough College
Alma mater Keble College, Oxford

Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram KCVO PC (26 January 1858 – 26 May 1946) was Bishop of London from 1901 to 1939.

He was born in the rectory at Stanford-on-Teme, Worcestershire, the fourth son of Edward Winnington-Ingram (a Church of England priest and Rector of Stanford) and of Louisa (daughter of Henry Pepys, Bishop of Worcester). Winnington-Ingram was educated at Marlborough College and Keble College, Oxford; he graduated with second-class honours in Literae Humaniores ('Greats') in 1881. His younger brother Edward and his nephew (Edward's son) Arthur were both priests who became Archdeacons of Hereford. Another nephew of his was Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram, an important scholar of Greek tragedy and Professor of Greek at King's College, London.

He was a private tutor in Europe, 1881–84; curate at St Mary's, Shrewsbury, 1884–85; private chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfield, 1885–89; head of Oxford House Settlement, Bethnal Green 1889–97, chaplain to the Archbishop of York, 1889; rector of Bethnal Green, 1895; rural dean of Spitalfields, 1896; and canon of St Paul's Cathedral, 1897.


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