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...Church of England was on the side of the National Government, indiscreetly so. Village parsons, safe in their obscurity, were not more rash in dragging the Church into politics than the Rt. Rev. and Rt. Hon. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London. Knowing and hoping that his words would carry weight all over England, he warned the London Diocesan Congress thus: "The credit of the country is so much shaken that if the verdict of the country goes wrong . . . the pound will fall to five shillings within 24 hours, to a shilling within a week and to a penny...
...Vacationing in Canada last week that ancient tennis player, Rt. Rev. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London, announced that he would be glad to give up Fulham Palace and live in a smaller house...
Church of England bishops also had trouble with the priesthood last week. They cannot induce sufficient young men to study for orders in order to fil all vicarates. Rt. Hon. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London, noted at the Church Assembly in London that there is "a certain amount of social contempt for a boy who intends to become a clergy...
Equally able is Rt. Rev. and Rt. Hon. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London, Knight, Dean of the Chapels Royal, Chaplain of the London Rifle Brigade, D.D., LL. D. Last week, aged 72, this spry alumnus of Marlborough College played for the old school in a valiant Old Boys' soccer match staged on the laws of the Bishop's residence, Fulham Palace. Soccering well the Rt. Hon. & Rt. Rev. scored three of his victorious team's eight goals. Score 8 to 4. Festivities followed in the Palace. A frequent feat of the Soccering Bishop: playing tennis...
...108th Bishop of London, the Rt. Hon., Rt. Rev. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, had every reason to be well pleased last week. In Town was a 23-year-old friend of his, Helen Newington Wills, that tennis girl from California. Although she is perhaps the world's best amateur woman player and although he is a septuagenarian, the Bishop and Miss Wills played tennis together last month while she was in England to be presented at Court. It was not, however, to play him a return match that she had returned. It was Wimbledon time. The Bishop, like many another...