Henry Wilson (bishop)
Henry Albert Wilson was an Anglican bishop and author.Biography
Born in Port Bannatyne, Wilson was educated at Camberwell Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Ordained presbyter in 1899, he began his career with a curacy at Christ Church, Hampstead, in London; after which he became Vicar of Norbiton. He was then Rural Dean of Cheltenham, until his appointment to the episcopate in 1929 as the third Bishop of Chelmsford. A proposal to expedite divorce – by having divorce cases heard in a magistrates court rather than a higher court – prompted his strenuous objection in 1944: "the landslide in sexual morals" meant that Christianity was "hanging by a thread in this country today". He resigned in 1950, and retired to Southwold. He had become a Doctor of Divinity.
Wilson's son was the architect Colin St John Wilson.Works
