Henry Wilson (bishop)

Henry Albert Wilson CBE (6 September 1876 – 16 July 1961)[1] was an Anglican bishop and author.[2] Born in Port Bannatyne, Wilson was educated at Camberwell Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.[3] Wilson was made a deacon in Advent 1899 (on St Thomas' Day, 21 December) by Mandell Creighton, Bishop of London, at Holy Trinity, Chelsea;[4] and ordained a priest the next Advent (23 December 1900) by Alfred Barry, assistant bishop for West London, at St Paul's Cathedral.[5] He began his career with a curacy at Christ Church, Hampstead, in London; after which he became Vicar of Norbiton.A proposal to expedite divorce – by having divorce cases heard in a magistrates' court rather than a higher court – prompted his strenuous objection in 1944: "the landslide in sexual morals" meant that Christianity was "hanging by a thread in this country today".
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Wilson depicted on an embroidered cushion at Chelmsford Cathedral
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