The Henson Journals

Charles Alfred Cripps

Charles Cripps (1852-1941; ODNB); barrister, QC 1890; MP (C), Stretford, 1901-6, Wycombe, 1910-14; first baron Parmoor, 1914; member, house of layman, Canterbury Convocation from 1890 (chairman, 1911-19) and Representative Church Council, 1904-20; vicar-general, York province, 1900-14, Canterbury province 1902-24 (resisting legal objections to Henson's appointment as bishop of Hereford); member, archbishops' committee on church and state, 1913-16; chairman, house of laity, Church Assembly, 1920-4; campaigner for the League of Nations; lord president of the council in Labour governments, 1924, 1929-31; son of the ecclesiastical lawyer, Henry William Cripps (1815-1899), author of A practical treatise on the laws relating to the Church and the clergy (1845), 6th edition by Charles Alfred Cripps (1886). See also Volume 71, 84.

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See also Cripps, Richard Stafford