Hensley Henson
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Herbert Hensley Henson was an English Anglican cleric, scholar and polemicist. He was Bishop of Hereford from 1918 to 1920 and Bishop of Durham from 1920 to 1939.
1920 portrait
St Margaret's, Barking, Henson's first parish
Henson when Rector of St Margaret's
Durham Cathedral
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Frere pictured at his 1923 consecration