Henry Whitehead (bishop)

Henry Whitehead (19 December 1853 – 14 April 1947) was an eminent Anglican bishop in the last decade of the 19th century[1] and the first quarter of the 20th.

Whitehead was educated at Sherborne and Trinity College, Oxford.

[4] He then emigrated to India where he was principal of Bishop’s College, Calcutta[5] from 1883 to 1899.

On St Peter's Day (29 June) 1899, he was consecrated a bishop by Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral,[6] to serve as the fifth Bishop of Madras,[7][8] an office he held for 23 years.

[9] A noted author on his adopted country, he died on 14 April 1947.