1897. In 1898, he became a Doctor of Divinity. After leaving Harrow, Welldon was appointed Bishop of Calcutta in 1898. As bishop, then metropolitan of Calcutta, he excluded Scottish chaplains and troops from the use of garrison churches in India because they had not received episcopal consecration, an action for which he was criticised by Robert Herbert Story. He remained diocesan until early 1902 when he resigned owing to ill health and disagreement with the Viceroy, Lord Curzon. He returned to England to become a canon of Westminster, and was installed as such on 8 March 1902. He served in Westminster until 1906. In late 1902 he visited South Africa. From 1906 to 1918 he was Dean of Manchester and from 1918 of Durham. He had a strained relationship with the Bishop of Durham, Hensley Henson, who described him as "a man who could neither speak with effect nor be silent with dignity". Private life Welldon became an Officer d'académie in 1898. He was a member of the Athenaeum, a senior Freemason (Past Grand Chaplain), and a keen proponent of British imperialism. He was a lifelong bachelor, and for nearly fifty years had the close companionship of a manservant, Edward Hudson Perkins, from whose death in 1932 Welldon never recovered. Welldon died at Sevenoaks, Kent, on 17 June 1937 aged eighty-three. E.M Forster's poem E.M. Forster wrote a satirical poem regarding Bishop Welldon after the bishop criticised Labour M.Ps for 'vulgar profanity': Screen portrayal Welldon, as Headmaster of Harrow who accepted Winston Churchill into the school, was portrayed by Jack Hawkins in the film Young Winston (1972). Publications Welldon was the author of a number of works including: Translation of Aristotle's Politics (1883). Translation of Rhetoric (1886). Translation of Ethics (1892). Gerald Eversley's Friendship (1895). The Hope of Immortality (1898). Harvest Home: A Sheaf of Sermons (1900). Patriotic Song (1901). The Consecration of the State (1902). The Revelation of the Holy Spirit (1902). Recollections and Reflections (1915). Religion and Reconstruction (1918). The Greek Orthodox Church. By Rev. Constantine Callinicos, Preface by the Right Rev. J.E.C. Welldon, 1918. The Nature of Immortality in Life After Death According to Christianity and Spiritualism. Sir James Marchant, Ed. (1925). The English Church (1926). The Church and the World (1932). Forty Years On (1935) Notes References Lyttelton, George, and Rupert Hart-Davis (1978). The Lyttelton/Hart-Davis Letters, Volume I (1955-6 letters). London: John Murray. External links Works