Henry Whitehead (19 December 185314 April 1947) was an eminent

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in the last decade of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th. Whitehead was educated at

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and

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in 1879, his first post was as a preacher at St Nicholas, Abingdon. He then emigrated to India where he was principal of

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from 1883 to 1899. On St Peter's Day (29 June) 1899, he was consecrated a bishop by

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, at St Paul's Cathedral, to serve as the fifth Bishop of Madras, 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" ''

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'' Thursday, 17 April 1947; p. 7; Issue 50737; col E He had become a

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(DD). Whitehead was the brother of the philosopher

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and the father of the mathematician

J. H. C. Whitehead John Henry Constantine Whitehead FRS (11 November 1904 – 8 May 1960), known as Henry, was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Chennai (then known as Madras), in India, and died in Princeton, ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Whitehead, Henry 1853 births People educated at Sherborne School Fellows of Trinity College, Oxford 19th-century Anglican bishops in Asia 20th-century Anglican bishops in Asia Anglican bishops of Madras 1947 deaths British emigrants to India