The Henson Journals

Arthur Cayley Headlam

Arthur [Cayley] Headlam (1862-1947; ODNB), theologian. New Coll., Oxford; fellow, All Souls Coll., Oxford, 1885-97, 1924-47; rector of Welwyn, 1898-1901; editor, Church Quarterly Review, 1901-21; principal, King's College, London, 1903-13; regius professor of theology, Oxford, 1918-23; bishop of Gloucester, 1923-45; controversial chairman of the Church's Council on Foreign Relations, 1933-45; shared Henson's ecumenism and individualism, though not his opposition to Nazism; on his death, Henson wrote of him as 'my oldest clerical friend': Braley, Letters, 193-4. See also Volume 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 85.

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See also Headlam [née Wingfield], Evelyn Persis