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Fulham Palace

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BISHOP'S TWO ROOMS. DR. INGRAM'S' OFFER TO GIVE UP FULHAM PALACE. Presiding yesterday at the autumn session of the London Diocesan Conference, held at the Church House, the BISHOP of LONDON alluded to what he described as the misrepresentations which had been made in regard to his income. He said :- There is the question about my income ; I am quite willing that the Finance Board of the Diocese shall take over the income of the bishopric, that they shall arrange for me to have • moiety, that I shall live in some small house taken by the Finance Board, which shall, however, keep London House and Fulham Palace for Church purposes. I have lived in two rooms for six months in Fulham Palace, which has been used as a retreat, whilst London House has been used for the purpose of the National Mission. think this is a matter worthy of consideration. It ought to be thought out whether some such arrangement could be arrived at. There are a great many things to be said on both sides. Of course, the thing to be done is to avoid this perpetual misrepresentation. It would be an example of sacrifice in the diocese- sacrifice I have pleaded for although it would be no sacrifice for me. A little house would be quite as comfortable, rather more so, than big one. It would also, possibly, help the finances of the diocese, but I rather doubt that. The laymen of the diocese would have to be consuted. It must be thoroughly thrashed out by the laymen whether this arrangement would be better for the Church or not. I would never, however, consent to this arrangement if Fulham Palace were to cease to be in the hands of the Church, or to be secularised after 1,300 years. That would have to be an. absolute part of the bargain. It would also have to be a part of the bargain that the £1,000 a year which I give to charitable objects, and which have promised, must. be kept up, because otherwise. I should be disappointing those to whom I have given my personal word. The other side of the matter is that the Bishop of London must be, somehow, placed in a position where be can have personal touch as nOw with all the important men of England. That must also be remembered. We shall have to consider whether that can be done by living, say, in a villa at Hampstead. It is a matter which will have to be considered. As far as I am concerned I am prepared to live where, how, and on what scale the diocese decides I shall. Dr. Ingram, referring to the war, said that the Church must breathe fortitude into the nation, whose nerves were being strained by the perpetual loss, the army of mourners, and the casualty lists. On the subject of the National Mission, be said he bad made tour of 30 dioceses, and what had been accomplished gave cause for great encouragement.
Article from 22 Nov 1916The Times(London, Greater London, England)
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