Henry Baines (bishop)

Henry Wolfe Baines (2 February 1905 – 29 November 1972) was an Anglican bishop.[1]

For the botanist, see Henry Baines (botanist).

Baines was educated at Repton School and Balliol College, Oxford.[2] After theological studies at Ripon College Cuddesdon he was ordained in 1930 and began his ordained ministry as a curate at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin.[3] From 1934 he was chaplain of St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong,[4] then Vicar of St Nicholas Radford, Coventry and finally, before his ordination to the episcopate, the Rural Dean of Rugby. In 1949 he became Bishop of Singapore[5] and in 1960 he was translated to be the Bishop of Wellington. He was consecrated bishop on 29 June 1949, by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral (London, UK).[6]

References

1. Bishop Baines Obituary The Times, 2 December 1972; pg. 16; Issue 58647; col G
2. “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
3. Church website
4. Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican Clergy
5. Bishop Of Singapore Consecration In St. Paul's (News), The Times, 30 June 1949; pg. 7; Issue 51421; col C
6. Blain, Michael. Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific — ordained before 1932 (2019) p. 70 (Accessed at Project Canterbury, 26 June 2019)

Church of England titles
Preceded by John Leonard Wilson	Bishop of Singapore 1949 – 1960	Succeeded by Cyril Kenneth Sansbury
Preceded by Reginald Herbert Owen	Bishop of Wellington 1960 – 1972	Succeeded by Edward Kinsella Norman