British divine, born on the 6th of June 1860 at Crayke, Yorkshire, the son of William Inge, sometime provost of Worcester College, Oxford. He was educated at Eton, and at King’s College, Cambridge, and won numerous honours and prizes during his university career. From 1884 to 1888 he held an undermastership at Eton, and during the last two years of that time was fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. From 1889 to 1904 he was fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, Bampton lecturer in 1889, and Paddock lecturer in New York in 1906. From 1905 to 1907 he was vicar of All Saints’, Ennismore Gardens, until his appointment as Lady Margaret professor of divinity at Cambridge. In 1911 he became dean of St. Paul’s, where his sermons attracted great attention owing to their original power, their caustic criticism of the tendencies of modern life, and a somewhat pessimistic tone which earned for him the sobriquet of “the gloomy dean.”
Among his numerous historical and theological works may be mentioned Society in Rome under the Cæsars (1886); Christian Mysticism (1899); Types of Christian Saintliness (1915); Philosophy of Plotinus (1918); Outspoken Essays (1919), and schoolbooks.
