Arthur Winnington-Ingram

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This article is about the Bishop of London. For the Archdeacon of Hereford, see Arthur Winnington-Ingram (Archdeacon of Hereford).

Stanford-on-Teme, Worcestershire, England
Died26 May 1946(1946-05-26) (aged 88)
Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglican
ParentsEdward Winnington-Ingram
Louisa Pepys
EducationMarlborough College
Alma materKeble College, Oxford
"London" – Winnington-Ingram as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, May 1901
Winnington-Ingram on a visit to the Royal Navy flagship in 1916 (Illustrated War News)

Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram

PC (26 January 1858 – 26 May 1946) was Bishop of London
from 1901 to 1939.

Early life and career

He was born in the rectory at

King's College, London.[citation needed
]

He was a private tutor in Europe,

canon of St Paul's Cathedral
, 1897.

Episcopal career

In 1897, Winnington-Ingram was raised to the

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
]

First World War

During the

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

Order of St Sava, 1st Class (Serbia).[17]

Later life and legacy

On 22 May 1946, Winnington-Ingram was taken ill while playing

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

Primary School, Ruislip.[23]

A wide public was familiar with Winnington-Ingram through numerous illustrations of various kinds, including cartoons; the

Keble College
Hall.

Works

Unless otherwise indicated, all titles sourced from his sketch in Crockford's Clerical Directory 1938:

References

  1. ^ The Tablet archive — 20 April 1901, pages 24–25 (Accessed 2 July 2015)
  2. ISSN 0009-658X
    . Retrieved 2 July 2015 – via UK Press Online archives.
  3. ^ Oxford DNB — Ingram, Arthur Foley Winnington- (Accessed 2 July 2015)
  4. ^ Thicknesse, Cuthbert (1959). Wickham Legg, LG; Williams, ET (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography, 1941–1950. Oxford University Press. p. 964.
  5. ^ Oxford University Calendar 1895, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1895, p.232.
  6. Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 4 June 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  7. ^ Dictionary of National Biography, 1941–1950. p. 965.
  8. ^ History, Oxford House, archived from the original on 5 May 2008.
  9. ^ Who's Who, 1901
  10. ^ "No. 27295". The London Gazette. 19 March 1901. p. 1937.
  11. ^ "No. 27313". The London Gazette. 14 May 1901. p. 3273.
  12. ISBN 0-19-861379-2.Article by Jeremy Morris
    .
  13. ^ London Diocesan Magazine, May, 1915
  14. ^ London Diocesan Magazine, October, 1914
  15. ^ London Diocesan Magazine, January, 1916
  16. ^ London Diocesan Magazine, January, 1918
  17. ^ Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 595.
  18. ^ "Dr AF Winnington-Ingram". Obituaries. The Times. No. 50462. London. 27 May 1946. col D, p. 6.
  19. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 29. p. 282.
  20. ^ "Winnington Ingram". Auckland Star. Vol. XXXII, no. 111. 11 May 1901. p. 5.
  21. ^ Prior, James (11 December 1985). "Theodora Cowan - Chipping away at a career ... and sexism". The Sun (Sydney). p. 49.
  22. ^ Sturgeon, Graeme (1978). The Development of Australian Sculpture 1788-1975. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 48.
  23. ^ Bishop Winnington-Ingram Primary School website
  24. ^ "Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram - National Portrait Gallery".
  25. ^ Who Was Who, 1941-1950. A and C Black. 1952. p. 588.
  26. ^ a b c Who Was Who, 1941-1950. p. 589.
  • Spencer Cecil Carpenter
    , Winnington-Ingram. The biography of Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London, 1901-1939 (1949)
  • Percy Colson, Life of the Bishop of London: An Authorised Biography; A Tribute on His Jubilee 1885-1935 (1935)

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