The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Arthur Winnington-Ingram |
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Bishop of London | |
Arthur Winnington-Ingram circa 1910
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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 |
Stanford-on-Teme, Worcestershire, United Kingdom |
26 January 1858
Died | 26 May 1946 Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, United Kingdom |
(aged 88)
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.