Graham Ingham
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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
Ingham was born in Bermuda, the seventh child and third son of Samuel Saltus Ingham, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Bermuda.[http://www.whobegatwhom.co.uk/ind79.html Genealogical web site] He was educated at Bishop's College School in Canada and Christ's College, Cambridge{{Citation needed|date=January 2011}} — 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{{Who's Who|title=Ingham, Rt Rev. Ernest Graham|id=U198349}} and then Vicar of St Matthew's, Leeds[http://www.findachurch.co.uk/churches/se/se33/stmatthews/ Church web-site] until his appointment to the episcopate as the fifth Bishop of Sierra Leone."The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889{{London Gazette |issue=25195 |date=6 February 1883 |page=647}}
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
- 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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External links
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Graham Ingham |sopt=t}}
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