The Henson Journals

James Granville Adderley

James Granville Adderley (1861-1942; ODNB), Christian socialist; Christ Church Coll., Oxford; first head of Oxford House mission, Bethnal Green, 1885-6; Christ Church Oxford mission, Poplar, 1887-93; founder member with Charles Gore and Henry Scott Holland of Christian Social Union, 1889; prominent in other Christian socialist ventures; vicar, St Mark's, Marylebone, 1901-4, St Saviour's, Saltley, Birmingham, 1904-13, St Gabriel's, Derintend, 1913-18, St Paul's, Covent Garden, 1918-23, St Anne's, Highgate, 1923-9, and St Edmund, Lombard Street, 1929-37; prebendary, St Paul's Cathedral, 1935-42; Henson disliked his socialism, but admired his fundamental goodness and moral courage: ODNB. See also Volume 69, 83, 84, 86.

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See also Adderley, Reginald Edmund