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Email this pageRevd Professor George Henslow
(1835-1925)
President of the Churchman's Union 1898-1902
George Henslow was the son of John Stevens Henslow now remembered primarily as the Cambridge mentor of Charles Darwin. He was a medalist of Christ College, Cambridge, graduating in about 1858.
Like his father George was a botanist. He endorsed evolution though he promoted Lamarkism, rather than natural selection, showing that plants were capable of adapting to environmental stresses. (George Henslow on Natural Selection). In 1919 he was made vice president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Francis Galton in Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development cites some of Henslow's mental processes in ways which suggest he was a synaesthete (pp. 67, 82, 100, 115).
Revd William Douglas Morrison
(1852-1943)
President of the Churchman's Union 1902-1908
William Morrison was born in 1852 in Newton, New Brunswick.
He was a prison chaplain between 1883 and 1898 and became a noted prison reformer building on this experience. In 1898 he was awarded an LL.D by St Andrew's University. He was Rector of St Marylebone Church from 1908 to 1943.
Sir Charles Acland
(1842-1919)
President of the Churchman's Union 1908-1915
Sir Charles Acland, was educated at Eton College, and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1866 (B.A.; M.A 1868). Admitted to Inner Temple as Barrister 1869. Lieutenant-Colonel in the 1st Devon Yeomanry Cavalry. Justice of the Peace Somerset and Devon.
MP for East Cornwall elected 1882 and 1892. Church Estates Commissioner, 1886. Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade February - August 1886.
Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset and Devon. High Sheriff of Devon in 1903.
Revd Cavendish Moxon
Secretary to the Churchman's Union 1916-1920
Cavendish Moxon was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, taking his BA in 1904. That same year he entered Ripon Theological College. In 1906 he was deaconed and priested in 1907.
He was curate in the Church of St Andrew Stourton (1906-8) and thereafter had a number of brief appointments: Eccles (1908-9); All Saints, Pontefract (1909-11); St Peter, South Croyden (1911-12); St Marylebone (1912-14). He was Rector of Marske in Yorkshire during the war (1914-1918) and then at Christ Church Westminster (1918-20).
After this he appears to have left the country, or at least the ministry, and moved into psychology. In 1960 he was in Sausalito, California.