Henry Knox Sherrill was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 6, 1890. He was educated at Yale and Episcopal Theological School. He served as an Episcopal clergyman in Massachusetts from 1914-1930. He was elected Bishop of Massachusetts in 1930, serving until 1946. He was Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1947-1958. He held the office of President of the National Council of Churches from 1950-1952, and of the World Council of Churches from 1954-1961. He died on May 11, 1980.
From the description of Sherrill family papers, 1859-2003 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702181236
From the description of Henry Knox Sherrill papers, 1776-1985 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 122512893
John Boyd Bentley was born in Hampton, Virginia 9 February 1896. He attended the College of William and Mary and served in the U. S. Field Artillery in World War I. Bentley attended the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia He served as an Episcopal clergyman in Alaska and in Williamsburg. He then served as Suffragan Bishop and Bishop of Alaska. From 1947 to 1964, Bentley was Director of Overseas Missions of the Episcopal Church. He died 12 June 1989.
1896, February 9
Born,
Hampton, Virginia,son of
Charles Headley Bentleyand
Susan Elizabeth (Cake)
Bentley
1915
Entered
College of William and Mary(attended 1915-1916 and 1920-1921 but did not
graduate)
1917
Entered service in
U.S. Field Artillery
1921, May 28
Married
Elvira Wentworth Carr(died,
1983)
1921
Attended
Theological Seminary in Alexandria,
Virginia
1921
1925
Episcopal clergyman in
Alaska
1926
1930
Episcopal clergyman in
Williamsburg, Virginia
1931
Ordained Bishop in
Denver, Colorado
1931
1942
Suffragan Bishop of
Alaska
1942
1947
Bishop in charge of
Alaska
1947
1964
Director of Overseas Missions of Episcopal
Church
1964
Retired and moved to
Hampton, Virginia
1964
1989
Episcopal minister in Diocese of
Southern Virginia
1989, June 12
Died,
Hampton, Virginia.
From the guide to the John Boyd Bentley Papers, 1895-1987, (Special Collections, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary)
1890 Nov 6
Born in
Brooklyn, New York, son of Henry Williams and Maria (Prue) Knox Mills
Sherrill
1906
Graduated
from Polytechnic Preparatory School, Brooklyn
1906
1907
Year spent at Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut
1911
Graduated from Yale
College
1914
Graduated
from Episcopal Theologlcal School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1914 Jun 7
Ordained to the deaconate
1914
1917
Assistant minister, Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts
1917
1919
Red Cross chaplain of
the Massachusetts General Hospital, Base Hospital Six; service in France
(transferred from status of Red Cross chaplain to Army chaplain, First
Lieutenant,1918)
1919
1923
Rector
of Church of Our Saviour, Brookline, Massachusetts
1921
Married to Barbara Harris who became the mother of his
children: Henry Williams, Edmund Knox, Franklin Goldthwaite, and Barbara
Prue
1923
Received
calls from St. James' Church, Chicago; St. Paul's Church, Rochester; Trinity
Church, Boston
1923
1930
Rector
of Trinity Church, Boston
1928
Elected
Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. Declined position.
1928
Became trustee of
Massachusetts General Hospital. Was Chairman of the Board 1934-1946.
1929
Granted honorary D.D. by
Yale University. Numerous honorary degrees followed in the years to
come.
1930 May 8
Elected
Bishop of Massachusetts
1930 Oct 14
Consecration as Bishop of Massachusetts
1932 Sep
Mother, Maria Knox Sherrill, died
1933 Mar
Brother, Franklin Goldthwaite Sherrill, died
1934
Elected a "successor" fellow of the Yale Corporation
1941
Published
William Lawrence, Later Years of a
Happy Life
1943
Vice-chairman
of United States General Commission on Chaplains, later Chairman. Traveled to
Aleutian Islands in September, 1943 to visit chaplains and men on duty
there.
1945 Apr
Visited
troops and chaplains in Europe on behalf of General Commission of
Chaplains.
1945 Dec
Visited
Germany as part of Federal Council of Churches delegation
1946
Elected Presiding Bishop of Episcopal Church
1946
Appointed by President
Truman to the Committee on Civil Rights
1947 Jan 14
Installed as Presiding Bishop
1948
Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale Divinity School; lectures published as
The Church's Ministry in Our
Time.
1948
Attended
Lambeth Conference in England
1949
General
Convention of Episcopal Church in San Francisco
1949
Operation for intestinal ailment
1950
1952
President of newly formed National Council of Churches of
Christ in the U.S.A.
1952
General
Convention of Episcopal Church in Boston
1953
Visited Japan, Korea, Okinawa, Philippines
1954
Anglican Conference, Minneapolis
1954
Elected as one of the Presidents of the World Council of
Churches at the Second General Assembly, Evanston thereby member of Executive
and Central Committees. Served as WCC President until 1961.
1955
General Convention of Episcopal Church in Honolulu. HKS made
decision to shift location from Houston due to problems of racial
segregation.
1955
Visited
Australia
1956
Visited
U.S.S.R. as part of National Council of Churches delegation
1958
Appeared on "Person to Person" television show with Edward R.
Murrow
1958
Attended
Lambeth Conference in England
1958
General
Convention of Episcopal Church in Miami Beach. HKS's successor elected. Son,
Edmund, elected as Bishop of Central Brazil.
1958 Nov
Retired as Presiding Bishop
1962
Published
autobiography: Among Friends
1968
Operation for
gall bladder
1980 May 11
Died
For more detailed information, see Sherrill's autobiography, Among Friends (Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1962) and the obituaries and tributes contained in Series III, Box 36. List of Sherrill family members;
- Henry Knox Sherrill
- Barbara Harris Sherrill (died May 6,
1986)
- Henry Williams Sherrill (Harry, HWS) m. Patty, children:
Rebecca (Becky), Barbara, and Henry Sinclair (Sinny)
- Edmund Knox
Sherrill (Neddo) m. Betty, children: Mary, Henry Knox Sherrill II, and
Elisabeth (Bunny)
- Franklin Goldthwaite Sherrill (FGS, Goldy) m.
Mary, children: Ann, Sarah and Edmund Knox Sherrill II
- Barbara
Prue Sherrill (Prusie) m. Mason Wilson, Jr. children: Mason and Henry
1922 Nov 14
Born
in Boston, MA, son of Henry Knox Sherrill and Barbara Harris Sherrill
1941
Graduated from Milton
Academy
1943
1946
Served
in U.S. Army
1947
Graduated
from Yale College, class of 1945
1947
1948
Attended
Union Theological Seminary, NY
1950
Graduated
from Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, VA
1950
Ordained at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, Boston
1952
1952
Parish ministry: Christ
Church, Grosse Pointe, MI
1952
1965
Parish
ministry: Church of the Redeemer, Cincinnati, OH
1964
1969
Executive Officer of Diocese of Southern Ohio
1969
2001
Served with various
non-profit and charitable organizations, including co-founder of Consultation
Search, co-founder (1971) and chairman (1971-1991) of the Cheswick Center.
Among the Cheswick Center projects he was involved with were the innovative
Board Mentor Program, in conjunction with the Association of Governing Boards
and Universities, and the Program for the Public Service Management of
Religious Institutions at the General Theological Seminary, Berkeley, Calif. He
also consulted with the Menniger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas, the Department of
Psychiatry of the University of Cincinnati Medical School in Cincinnati, Ohio,
and the Clorox Company. He served as president of the Good Samaritan Foundation
in Wilmington, DE and on the boards of the Corporation of the Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston; the Center of Effective Philanthropy, Cambridge,
Mass.; the Children’s Home, Cincinnati, Ohio; the Slingerland Institute,
Seattle, Wash., and the Arizona branch of the International Dyslexia Society,
among many others.
2001 Mar 21
Died
in Peoria, AZ
From the guide to the Henry Knox Sherrill Papers, 1859-2003, (Yale University Divinity School Library)
