Thomas Strong (bishop)

Thomas Banks 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	(1861-10-24)24 October 1861
Died
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford
Religion	Church of England

The Very Rev. Thomas Banks Strong GBE (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. 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 (1901–1920). He received the degree Doctor of Divinity (DD) from the University of Oxford in January 1902.

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. 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 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