Arthur Headlam

The Right Reverend                    Arthur Headlam CH
Bishop of Gloucester
Diocese	Diocese of Gloucester
Installed	1923
Term ended	1945
Predecessor	Edgar Gibson
Successor	Wilfred Askwith
Orders
Ordination	1888
Personal details
Born	(1862-08-02)2 August 1862 Whorlton, County Durham
Died
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	Arthur William Headlam Agnes Favell
Spouse	Evelyn Persis Wingfield
Previous post	Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford
Education	Winchester College
Alma mater	New College, Oxford

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Memorial in Gloucester Cathedral

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

Biography

Headlam was born in Whorlton, County Durham, the son of its vicar, Arthur William Headlam (1826–1908), by his first wife, Agnes Favell. 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.

He was Professor of Dogmatic Theology at King's College London from 1903–1916, where he served as Principal from 1903 to 1912 and as the first Dean from 1908 until 1913. He was Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford from 1918 to 1923. His 1920 Bampton Lectures showed the theme of ecumenism that would preoccupy him. At the time of the 1926 General Strike, he opposed the intervention of some of the other bishops.

He was influential in the Church of England's council on foreign relations in the 1930s, chairing the Committee on Relations with Episcopal Churches. He supported the Protestant Reich Church in Germany, and was a critic of the Confessing Church. He is thus generally considered an 'appeaser'.

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

Selected publications

• With William Sanday, Frederick Kenyon, F. Crawford Burkitt, & J. H. Bernhard.

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Arthur Cayley Headlam, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Agnes Headlam-Morley, (1948) memoir in A. C. Headlam, The Fourth Gospel as History

External links

• Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury

Academic offices
Preceded by Archibald Robertson	Principal of King's College London 1903–1912	Succeeded by Ronald Montagu Burrows
New office	Dean of King's College London 1908–1912	Succeeded by Alfred Caldecott
Preceded by Henry Scott Holland	Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford 1918—1923	Succeeded by Henry Leighton Goudge
Church of England titles
Preceded by Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson	Bishop of Gloucester 1923–1945	Succeeded by Wilfred Marcus Askwith