Arthur Headlam
Arthur Cayley Headlam was an English theologian who served as Bishop of Gloucester from 1923 to 1945.Biography
Headlam was born in Whorlton, County Durham, the son of its vicar, Arthur William Headlam, by his first wife, Agnes Favell. The historian James Wycliffe Headlam was his younger brother. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he read Greats. He was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1885. He was ordained in 1888, and became Rector of Welwyn in 1896. In 1900 Headlam married Evelyn Persis Wingfield.
He was Professor of Dogmatic Theology at King's College London from 1903–1916, where he served as Principal from 1903 to 1912 and as the first Dean from 1908 until 1913. He was Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford from 1918 to 1923. His 1920 Bampton Lectures showed the theme of ecumenism that would preoccupy him. At the time of the 1926 General Strike, he opposed the intervention of some of the other bishops.
He was influential in the Church of England's council on foreign relations in the 1930s, chairing the Committee on Relations with Episcopal Churches. He supported the Protestant Reich Church in Germany, and was a critic of the Confessing Church. He is thus generally considered an 'appeaser'.
He was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in the 1921 Birthday Honours for his services at Oxford.*
