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. Ingham was born in

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, the seventh child and third son of Samuel Saltus Ingham, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Bermuda. He was educated at

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and Christ's College, Cambridge — gaining his

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(MA Cantab) —, and

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in 1877. He was Organizing Secretary of the

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(CMS) for

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and then

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of St Matthew's,

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until his appointment to the

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as the fifth Bishop of Sierra Leone. On returning to England he was

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of Stoke-next-Guildford from 1897 to 1904,

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of the CMS until 1912 and finally

of St Jude's,

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. At some point, he became a Doctor of Divinity (DD). He was buried in the churchyard at Aldingbourne, West Sussex.

Works

*''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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ingram, Graham 1851 births Bishop's University alumni Alumni of St Mary Hall, Oxford 19th-century Anglican bishops in Sierra Leone British Anglican missionaries Bishop's College School alumni Anglican missionaries in Sierra Leone Anglican bishops of Sierra Leone 1926 deaths Members of the House of Assembly of Bermuda