Thomas Strong (bishop)

Thomas Strong
Thomas Strong
Vice-Chancellor of the; University of Oxford
	In office; 1913–1917
Preceded by	Charles Buller Heberden
Succeeded by	Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston
Personal details
Born	24 October 1861
Died	8 July 1944 (aged 82)
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford

Thomas Banks Strong GBE (24 October 1861 – 8 July 1944) was an English theologian who was Bishop of Ripon and Oxford.^[1] He was also Dean of Christ Church, Oxford and served as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University during the First World War.^[2]

Thomas Strong was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he received a second-class degree in Literae Humaniores in 1883.^[3] He became a deacon in 1885 and a priest in 1886. At Christ Church, Strong was successively Lecturer (1884), Student (1888), Censor (1892), and then Dean (1901^[4]–1920). He received the degree Doctor of Divinity (DD) from the University of Oxford in January 1902.^[5]

In 1920 he was appointed Bishop of Ripon, and in 1925 he transferred as Bishop of Oxford, serving as such until 1937.

Strong produced a number of theological publications.^[6]^[7]^[8] 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.^[9]

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)

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

v t e Dean of Christ Church, Oxford
Predecessors	John Hygdon* John Oliver* John London Richard Cox
Early modern	Richard Cox Richard Marshall George Carew Thomas Sampson Thomas Godwin Thomas Cooper John Piers Tobias Matthew William James Thomas Ravis John King William Goodwin Richard Corbet Brian Duppa Samuel Fell Edward Reynolds John Owen Edward Reynolds George Morley John Fell John Massey Henry Aldrich Francis Atterbury George Smalridge Hugh Boulter William Bradshaw John Conybeare David Gregory William Markham Lewis Bagot Cyril Jackson
Late modern	Charles Henry Hall Samuel Smith Thomas Gaisford Henry Liddell Francis Paget Thomas Strong Henry Julian White Alwyn Williams John Lowe Cuthbert Simpson Henry Chadwick Eric Heaton John Drury Christopher Lewis Martyn Percy Sarah Foot
* – Academic deans only; prior to the establishment of Christ Church Cathedral; ** – Cathedral deans at Osney.

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v t e Bishops of Ripon (modern diocese)
Charles Longley Robert Bickersteth William Boyd Carpenter Thomas Drury Thomas Strong Edward Burroughs Geoffrey Lunt George Chase John Moorman Hetley Price David Young John Packer, Bishop of Ripon and Leeds James Bell, Acting Bishop of Ripon and Leeds diocese dissolved; Bell became area Bishop of Ripon
for the area bishops in Leeds diocese, see Bishop of Ripon