november september anglican priest scholar son member plymouth allowed school fourteen largely self educated admitted university_of_oxford gained class degree year elected fellow souls began reputation speaker ordained priest feeling minister urban poor served east end london chaplain ancient appointed high profile post vicar westminster canon wrote wing church took exception liberal theological views regarded sought unsuccessfully block appointment years largely rural diocese returned durham bishop industrial north east england including badly affected economic depression opposed strikes trade unions socialism time expression views unpopular diocese opinions church matters changed radically career strong advocate church_of_england continued establishment country official church came believe politicians trusted properly ecclesiastical matters espoused cause campaigned efforts introduce prohibition exploitation foreign workers british companies fascist nazi aggression supported reform divorce laws controversial revision book common prayer life career early years born london fourth son sixth child businessman second wife martha née fear family moved coast kent years old evangelical christian renounced church_of_england joined plymouth shielded children worst biographer describes thomas died words died happiness early age young dedicated christian felt anglican father views left calls enduring hatred protestant remarried widow lutheran pastor filled role sympathy kindness father ensuring children properly educated phrase recreated home fourteen father allowed baptised attend school rector conducted baptism undertook functions took religious instruction rector leading confirmation member church_of_england derived little educational benefit having educated widely deeply books father library rose head boy school dispute expressed passion respect opinion head ran away school gained employment assistant master grammar school lincolnshire recognised talent recommended apply admission university_of_oxford idea partly financial means declined talked round wife gave consent thomas agreed fund son studies sum allowed little pay substantial fees residence colleges university applied successfully admission student member oxford colleges eligible range university tuition cut college life felt seriously isolated concentrated studies gained class honours degree june souls quality scholarship history tutor encouraged enter annual competition appointment fellow souls university post graduate research college appointed november age membership college offered annual time reasonably comfortable financial circumstances souls later wrote welcomed generous kindness feel immediately home formed friendships enriched life biographer suggests nonetheless remained outsider arrival souls akin alien college headed warden sir father figure encouraged paper england marked fine scholar gripping speaker delivered audience aware quick tongue lead adopted maintained life practice writing lectures speaking notes preferred pen wrote fine clear hand considered writing form bad manners talking gained reputation biographical sketch wrote nicknamed added man certain right man inclined ridicule bare idea opponent wrong man thoroughly happy making use intellect stab thrust triumphant way logic adversary tandem work souls acted tutor son businessman family lived months stayed ample leisure time spent visiting local churches process left struggling questions sure religious day return oxford october went hand altar vowed god church beliefs doctrine forming inclined high influenced extreme forms suspicion proponent principle establishment maintenance official state religion secretary new counter threat proposed politicians east london poverty seen months gave strong impetus minister poor ordained took charge high church mission poor area east end london post speaking skills public debates office ordained priest shortly souls appointed vicar church gift east london large working class parish population increasing youngest vicar country large staff manage souls colleague brink church career visited noted came months ago parish dead good congregation church seat filled energy noted worked continually seven years improve parish restoring fabric church opening clubs holding popular open air services grounds high church welcomed invited preach time time central london physically strong relentless work strain physique accepted offer lord salisbury post held select preacher oxford served chaplain time writing published books ranging purely theological studies analyses church politics beliefs changed early high broad church set concerns strict wing church westminster appointment salisbury personal gift official capacity prime minister responsible appointment rector westminster canon parish church british parliament high profile appointment followed predecessors willing court controversy including eventual successor wrote brilliance speaker independence thought attracted large congregations increasingly liberal appealed wide range public opinion views offended orthodox married isabella caroline daughter scotland comments keeping usual proposed days meeting marriage lifelong children pulpit spoke view words moral monster criticised schools failed provide adequate religious instruction preaching westminster abbey attracted international attention naming denouncing british directors atrocities mass brutal treatment indigenous company rubber factories time published books collected lectures role christianity modern society theological questions character brought frequent conflict old friends colleagues offended gore order preach institute church diocese style liberal theology caused delay promotion despite obvious abilities story circulated prime minister suggested york vacant king replied damn man defender faith post dean lincoln fell vacant considered appointing decided told archbishop_of_canterbury like sending destroyer land locked pool dean bishop dean durham died hoped prime minister appoint chose january presided formal installation years spent marked controversy including objection existing divorce laws favourable men unfair women hostile changes aimed giving church control affairs regarded establishment parliamentary control opposed life liberty movement campaigned democratic government church establishment essence rested parliamentary enforcement rights church bishops priests inclusion clergy matters rule monarch supreme governor church views known disapproval socialism disbelief social reform ally religion controversy erupted found odds gore question colonial bishops committed taking service gore ally led charge appear journal devoted gifted temper beliefs reckless methods canterbury leaders strongly successfully supported accused bishops church owes deep debt gratitude spoke strongly ultimately unsuccessfully proposed wales addressed gatherings historian suggests commended prime minister row church running elevation defended right clergy express doubts virgin birth resurrection critics failed refused notice orthodox resurrection content accept tradition virgin birth contention priests right question wing church led gore doubts persuaded issue statement faith silence critics stated publicly fair minded man read series feeling brilliant powerful teacher christian faith gore followers obliged protests advice caution appointed vacant gore including failed attend service attitude hurt offended lay opinion church sharply criticised times consecrated bishop february assisted supporting bishops days later elevation controversial chiefly factions clergy general lay people supported appointment gave fresh impetus idea taking away prime minister power choose bishops gore attempted promote idea abandoned restraint words stripped gore arguments bare argued historical examples appointments church partisan disastrous crown prime minister able view national interest despite public support controversy revived feelings isolation appointment described sending armoured car orchard apple trees doubts accepting mainly rural diocese urban poor clergy gave warm welcome enjoyed working country parishes appreciated local church concerns remarked treated world equals brief time published book collection regret diocese tenure brief durham vacant death wanted dean christ church appointed pressed claims prime minister took view area needed practical skills common touch strong academic scholarship durham translated senior diocese canterbury york london october appointment challenging area grave economic difficulty important coal mining industry crisis caused falling industrial demand coal years war potential friction bishop politically odds new superior given making public statements found view speak effect silent dignity clashed occasions strong admirer prohibition publicly criticised tolerant views consumption alcohol relations bishop official residence improved markedly april head master succeeded universally loved differed points ecclesiastical practice remained warm friends beginning durham miners strike got miners individually walked extensive grounds said got easily dignitaries friction arose belief strikes morally wrong harm working people words violent dislike trade unions early concern welfare poor remained unchanged regarded socialism trade reason state provision social welfare strong advocate voluntary spending later denounced march revolutionary mob pressure condemned action subordinate given march blessing class distinction social strong criticism christian maintained duty church social reform church principal concern individual man woman spiritual welfare best known according comes time durham complained portrait makes look proud responded grace exception remarks occasion applied nonetheless ranked greater figures ecclesiastical history conspicuous cause involved time durham anglican terms national international concern broad gave strong support major revision book common prayer church prescribed forms worship services evangelical wing church opposed revision low church factions dubbed anglo catholics early bitter dispute called opposition protestant underworld despite clear majority clergy favour revision house_of_commons refused voted colleague wrote plain church possess spiritual freedom determine worship church instituted damage limitation measures permitting parishes use new text local consensus horrified saw parliament betrayal duty governance church giving pressure termed army suspicions started harbour socialist government ecclesiastical patronage prayer book turned strong proponent establishment best known critic spent time energy campaigning earlier career isolated figure colleagues agreed dismayed parliamentary vote isolated causes took 1920s wary ultra senior inviting preach bishop david permitting critical american practised wrote trail moral intellectual progress leaves minority senior clergy speaking axis powers condemned nazi anti invasion munich agreement february age seventy retired suffolk seven months later second world war began supported allies fight saw war defeat wrote deepening nazi warfare horrible shake faith essential urged compromise peace years winston_churchill impressed comments common spending years isolated figures speaking beliefs dismissed time later prime minister churchill persuaded retirement resume old duties canon overcoming old post nearly thirty years preached poor continue retired abbey later years lifelong sense loneliness compounded growing wife making conversation difficult found friendship companion lived thirty years occupied considerable retirement writing substantial work autobiography published volumes title time subsequently friends regretted publishing work thought reputation despite williams calls peculiar interest books survey campaigns controversies self deny changes stance career williams view posthumous publication edited letters better legacy delightful form content barbed fuller justice writings referred regrets life public school fact ascribed lifelong feeling outsider second regret wife unable children unofficially adopted succession poor boys paid education priest ordained died september age eighty wish body cremated ashes interred books editor view modern london london memoir right honourable sir oxford author
Hensley Henson