WHITEHOUSE, Henry John, P. E. bishop, born in New York city, 19 August, 1803; died in Chicago, Illinois, 10 August, 1874. He was graduated at Columbia in 1821, and at the Protestant Episcopal general theological seminary, New York city, in 1824. He was ordained deacon by Bishop William White in St. James's church, Philadelphia, on 26 August, 1827, and immediately entered upon his ministry in Reading, Pennsylvania, from which in 1830 he was called to St. Luke's parish, Rochester, New York, where he remained fifteen years, attaining wide reputation as a pastor and preacher" was rector of St. Thomas's church, New York city, from 1844 till 1851, when he was elected assistant bishop of Illinois, to which see, on the death of Bishop Philander Chase, he succeeded on 20 September, 1852. While in England in 1867, Bishop Whitehouse delivered the opening sermon before the first Pan-Anglican conference at Lambeth palace, by invitation of the archbishop of Canterbury, and it was due to the advice of Bishop Whitehouse that invitations were extended to the American bishops. Oxford gave him the degree of D. D, and Cambridge that of LB. D., while Columbia had given him that of LL.D. in 1865. Bishop Whitehouse was one of the most accomplished prelates of the Episcopal church, possessing versatility of tallent with great learning. He was a brilliant orator and conversationalist. "Not one in ten thousand," says Bishop Henry W. Lee, of Iowa, in his memorim sermon, "had such ready command of words and such precision of diction as mark his written and spoken productions." His views had great weight in the house of bishops, and among foreign communions his influence did much to secure greater consideration for his own church. In the Cheney case, which precipitated the formation of the Reformed Episcopal church (see CHENEY, CHARLES EDWARD), he defended the church's standard of baptismal doctrine. He was the first, bishop of his church to advocate the adoption in this country of the cathedral system, which he did in his first diocesan address. Though highly cultured and deeply learned, he left no published works other than his annual addresses contained in the journals of the diocese of Illinois from 1853 to 1873.