Henry Whitehead (19 December 1853 – 14 April 1947) was an eminent Anglican bishop in the last decade of the 19th century[1] and the first quarter of the 20th.
Whitehead was educated at Sherborne and Trinity College, Oxford.[2] Ordained in 1879,[3] his first post was as a preacher at St Nicholas, Abingdon.[4] He then emigrated to India where he was principal of Bishop’s College, Calcutta[5] from 1883 to 1899. On St Peter's Day (29 June) 1899, he was consecrated a bishop by Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral,[6] to serve as the fifth Bishop of Madras,[7][8] an office he held for 23 years. In 1903 he married Isabel Duncan.[9] A noted author on his adopted country, he died on 14 April 1947.[10] He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).
Whitehead was the brother of the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and the father of the mathematician J. H. C. Whitehead.
