Henry Whitehead (19 December 185314 April 1947) was an eminent Anglican bishop in the last decade of the 19th centuryThe Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory London, John Phillips, 1900 and the first quarter of the 20th.
Biography Whitehead was educated at Sherborne and Trinity College, Oxford."Who was Who"1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 Ordained in 1879, his first post was as a preacher at St Nicholas, Abingdon. He then emigrated to India where he was principal of Bishop’s College, CalcuttaAnglican History 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, to serve as the fifth Bishop of Madras,The Times, Monday, 13 February 1899; p. 12; Issue 35751; col A Ecclesiastical Intelligence New Bishop of Calcutta an office he held for 23 years. In 1903 he married Isabel Duncan. A noted author on his adopted country, he died on 14 April 1947."Obituary Bishop Whitehead Forty Years In India" The Times Thursday, 17 April 1947; p. 7; Issue 50737; col E 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.
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