Thomas Strong (bishop)

Thomas Banks Strong
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Term	1913 – 1917
Predecessor	Charles Buller Heberden
Successor	Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston
Born	(1861-10-24)24 October 1861
Died	8 July 1944(1944-07-08) (aged 82)
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford
Religion	Church of England

Thomas Banks Strong GBE, BD (24 October 1861 – 8 July 1944) was an English theologian who was Bishop of Ripon and Oxford. He was also Dean of Christ Church, Oxford and served as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University during the First World War.

Thomas Strong was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he received a 2nd class degree in Literae Humaniores in 1883. At Christ Church, Strong was successively Lecturer (1884), Student (1888), Censor (1892), and then Dean (1901–1920). He became a deacon in 1885, a priest in 1886, then Bishop of Ripon (1920–1925) and Bishop of Oxford (1925–1937).

Strong produced a number of theological publications. He became a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in 1918. He was buried at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, where there is a memorial stone with a Latin inscription.

Selected books

• Christian Ethics: Eight Lectures (Longmans, Green and Co., 1896)
• A Manual of Theology (1903)
• God and the Individual (1903; Kessinger Publishing Company, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4368-5986-8)
• Lectures on the Method of Science (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906)
• Visitation Charge of the Bishop of Oxford at the Diocesan Visitation 1931 (Oxford University Press, 1931)

External links

• Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury
• Strong, Thomas Banks (1861–1944) Bishop of Oxford letters, JANUS, University of Cambridge
• Pictures and photographs at the National Portrait Gallery (London)
• Archival material relating to Thomas Strong (bishop) listed at the UK National Archives

Academic offices
Preceded by Francis Paget	Dean of Christ Church, Oxford 1901–1920	Succeeded by Henry Julian White
Preceded by Charles Buller Heberden	Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1913–1917	Succeeded by Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston
Church of England titles
Preceded by Thomas Drury	Bishop of Ripon 1920–1925	Succeeded by Edward Arthur Burroughs
Preceded by Hubert Murray Burge	Bishop of Oxford 1925–1937	Succeeded by Kenneth E. Kirk