The Henson Journals
Charles Lindley Wood
Charles Wood, 2nd viscount Halifax (1839-1934; ODNB), leading anglo-catholic layman. President of the English Church Union, 1869-1919, 1931-4, seeking revival of the catholic nature of the Church of England, defending ritualist clergymen, and promoting reunion with the Roman catholic church; Henson criticised his influence in undermining the 'national tradition of Christianity' in Britain in works from Cui bono: an open letter to Lord Halifax on the present crisis in the Church of England (1899) onwards. See also Volume 60, 71, 72.
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