Background
WELLDON, James Edward Cowell was born in 1854 in Tonbridge. Son of late Reverend Edward Welldon, master at Tonbridge School.
WELLDON, James Edward Cowell was born in 1854 in Tonbridge. Son of late Reverend Edward Welldon, master at Tonbridge School.
Eton (Newcastle Scholarship, 1873). King’s College Cambridge (Master of Arts, Scholar and Fellow). Bell Scholar, 1874; Browne’s medallist, 1875 and 1876.
Craven Scholar, 1876. Senior Classic and Senior Chancellor’s medallist, 1877.
After living some time abroad appointed lecturer, subsequently tutor of King’s College, Cambridge. Master of Dulwich College, 1883. Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, 1892-1898.
Member of Royal Commission on a Teaching University for London. Several times Select Preacher at Oxford and Cambridge, and speaker at various Church Congresses. Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge, 1897.
Headmaster of Harrow School, 1885-1898. Fellow of University of Calcutta, 1899. Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India, 1898-1902.
Canon of Westminster, 1902-1906. Dean of Manchester since 1906.