Graham Ingham

Ingham (seated between two women) with the Lagos Mission in 1885.
Ingham’s grave in Aldingbourne churchyard.

Ernest Graham Ingham (30 January 1851 – 9 April 1926) was an eminent Anglican bishop and author living at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.

Life

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Ingham was born in Bermuda, the seventh child and third son of Samuel Saltus Ingham, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Bermuda.[1] He was educated at Bishop's College School in Canada and Christ's College, Cambridge[citation needed] — gaining his Cambridge Master of Arts (MA Cantab) —, and ordained in 1877. He was Organizing Secretary of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) for West Yorkshire[2] and then Vicar of St Matthew's, Leeds[3] until his appointment to the episcopate as the fifth Bishop of Sierra Leone.[4][5]

On returning to England he was Rector of Stoke-next-Guildford from 1897 to 1904, Home Secretary of the CMS until 1912 and finally Vicar of St Jude's, Southsea. At some point, he became a Doctor of Divinity (DD).

He was buried in the churchyard at Aldingbourne, West Sussex.

Works

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  • Sierra Leone after a Hundred Years, 1894
  • From Japan to Jerusalem, 1911 (Publisher: London : Church Missionary Society)
  • Sketches in Western Canada, 1913

References

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  1. ^ Genealogical web site
  2. ^ "Ingham, Rt Rev. Ernest Graham". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Church web-site
  4. ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
  5. ^ "No. 25195". The London Gazette. 6 February 1883. p. 647.
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Church of England titles
Preceded by Bishop of Sierra Leone
1883–1897
Succeeded by