Herbert Hensley Henson
From LoveToKnow 1911
"HERBERT HENSLEY HENSON (1863-), English divine, was born in London Nov. 8 1863. As an unattached student at Oxford he graduated with a first class in modern history in 1884, and was elected a fellow of All Souls College. He was ordained in 1887, and after being head of Oxford House at Bethnal Green for a year he was given the living of Barking, Essex. He was incumbent of St. Mary's hospital, Ilford, 1895-1900, canon of Westminster and rector of St. Margaret's 1900-12, and dean of Durham 1912-8, when he was promoted to the bishopric of Hereford in succession to Dr. Percival. He had become B.D. in 1898 and successively hon. D.D. of Glasgow, Durham and Oxford, and was for some time hon. professor of modern history at Durham University. Owing to his pronounced liberal opinions in theology, notably as to the Virgin birth, and to his insistence on the validity of Nonconformist orders, highly objectionable to the Anglo-Catholic school in the Church, his elevation to the bench of bishops aroused much controversy, and a number of the clergy of the diocese united in a public protest. The election, however, went forward in face of opposition, which soon subsided. In 1920, he was translated to the bishopric of Durham.
Amongst his published works may be mentioned Light and Leaven (1897); Cui bono, an open letter to Lord Halifax (1899); War-time Sermons (1915) and Christian Liberty (1918).
