Arthur Winnington-Ingram | |
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Bishop of London | |
![]() Winnington-Ingram circa 1910 | |
Church | Church of England |
Province | Canterbury |
Diocese | London |
Elected | 17 April 1901 (confirmed) [1] |
Term ended | 1 September 1939 (retired) [2] |
Predecessor | Mandell Creighton |
Successor | Geoffrey Fisher |
Other post(s) | Bishop of Stepney 1897–1901 |
Orders | |
Ordination | Geoffrey Fisher |
Consecration | 30 November 1897 [3] |
Personal details | |
Born | Stanford-on-Teme, Worcestershire, England | 26 January 1858
Died | 26 May 1946 88) Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England | (aged
Nationality | British |
Denomination | Anglican |
Parents | Edward Winnington-Ingram 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). [4] Winnington-Ingram was educated at Marlborough College and Keble College, Oxford; he graduated with second-class honours in Literae Humaniores ('Greats') in 1881. [5] His younger brother Edward and his nephew (Edward's son) Arthur were both priests who became Archdeacons of Hereford. [6] Another nephew of his was Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram, a scholar of Greek tragedy and Professor of Greek at King's College, London.[ citation needed ]
He was a private tutor in Europe, [7] 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, [8] chaplain to the Archbishop of York, 1889; rector of St Matthew's, Bethnal Green, 1895; rural dean of Spitalfields, 1896; and canon of St Paul's Cathedral, 1897.
In 1897, Winnington-Ingram was raised to the episcopate as the second suffragan Bishop of Stepney. [9] In 1901, after the death of Mandell Creighton, he was nominated to the See of London, [10] and he was in the same year appointed as a Privy Counsellor. [11] As a preacher he proved very successful. He was a leader in social work in London's East End. As an administrator he has been judged inefficient in maintaining standards among the clergy in comparison with his disciplinarian-minded successor Geoffrey Fisher, a feature aggravated by his lengthy tenure.[ citation needed ]
During the First World War Winnington-Ingram threw himself into supporting the war effort. He saw the war as a "great crusade to defend the weak against the strong" and accepted uncritically stories of German atrocities. For a clergyman the language he used about the German people verged on xenophobia and H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister at the outbreak of the war, described his pitch as "jingoism of the shallowest kind". He spoke in aid of recruiting drives and later in the war urged his younger clergy to consider enlisting as combatants. Chaplain from 1901 to the London Rifle Brigade and London Royal Naval Volunteers, he visited the troops on both the Western Front and at Salonika, and the Grand Fleet at Rosyth and Scapa Flow. [12] A despatch from Field Marshal French portrayed Winnington-Ingram's visit to the Western Front; "The Bishop held several services virtually under shell fire, and it was with difficulty that he could be prevented from carrying on his ministrations under rifle fire in the trenches." [13] Such apparent derring-do and appeals to patriotism strengthened his reputation as a 'people's bishop'.
Winnington-Ingram was renowned as a charismatic preacher and persuasive writer, and he was arguably better known and more influential than either of the archbishops. Examples of his persuasive vocabulary can be traced throughout the War in the monthly London Diocesan Magazine, often quoted in the press: "Now, Jerusalem is a beautiful place, but England is far more beautiful", [14] "We face possibly another year of war, but it is God’s War; it is War for peace; it is a War for all the things which are essential to lasting peace, freedom, respect for national aspirations, international honour and chivalry to the weak", [15] "Great Britain has risen like a tower out of the deep and stands today higher in the opinion of the world than it has since Trafalgar and Waterloo". [16]
For his war work he was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer (Greece) and the Order of St Sava, 1st Class (Serbia). [17]
On 22 May 1946, Winnington-Ingram was taken ill while playing golf and he died a few days later on 26 May 1946 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire. [18] His remains were buried at St Paul's Cathedral. [19] He never married, although while Bishop of Stepney he was briefly engaged [20] to Lady Ulrica Duncombe, a friend of Queen Alexandra and daughter of William Ernest Duncombe, 1st Earl of Feversham of Ryedale and Mabel Violet Graham.
Australian sculptor Theodora Cowan created a portrait bust of Dr Winnington-Ingram which "took pride of place" in her one-woman show at London's Grafton Galleries. [21] [22]
He is commemorated in some of the street names in Hampstead Garden Suburb: The Bishops Avenue, Winnington Road and Ingram Avenue; and Bishop Winnington-Ingram Primary School, Ruislip. [23]
A wide public was familiar with Winnington-Ingram through numerous illustrations of various kinds, including cartoons; the National Portrait Gallery catalogues a collection of fifty-three portraits. [24] There is a portrait in Keble College Hall.
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