Henry Ware (22 June 1830 – 16 April 1909) was the inaugural Anglican Bishop of Barrow-in-Furness from 1889 until his death in 1909.
[2] He was made deacon in 1860 and ordained priest in 1862;[3] that year, he was appointed Vicar of Kirkby Lonsdale,[4] a post he held until 1888 when he was appointed to the episcopate.
[7] His father-in-law Harvey Goodwin was Bishop of Carlisle from 1869 until 1891.
[8] Ware was an active Freemason, having been initiated in 1865 in the Underley Lodge No 1074 at Kirkby Lonsdale.
Although many other Anglican bishops had been Freemasons before him, he is believed to have been the first bishop to accept the national appointment of Grand Chaplain in the United Grand Lodge of England, an office to which he was appointed in 1895.