Henry Whitehead

Who was Henry Whitehead?

The Rt Rev Henry Whitehead, DD was an eminent Anglican clergyman in the last decade of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th.

He was born on 19 December 1863 and educated at Sherborne and Trinity College, Oxford. Ordained in 1879 his first post was as a preacher at St Nicholas, Abingdon. He then emigrated to India where he was Principal of Bishop’s College, Calcutta from 1883 to 1899; and then the 5th Bishop of Madras, an office he held for 23 years. A noted author on his adopted country, he died on 14 April 1947.

Whitehead was the brother of the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and the father of the mathematician J. H. C. Whitehead.