King, Henry Churchill (1858–1934)

US theologian and educator. He was president of Oberlin college 1903–27, where he worked for the development of the ‘whole man’ and Oberlin came to emphasize music, the fine arts, morals, and religion. At the end of World War I he coauthored (with Charles Crane) the Crane-King report on what to do with the various lands belonging to the defeated Turkish Ottoman Empire.

He was born in Hillsdale, Michigan. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1879 and from Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1882. He studied in Berlin 1883–94 and was influenced by German philosophy. Although ignored at the time, the warning in the Crane-King report that Palestine was largely an Arab land would in later years be drawn into the controversy over the establishment of Israel on this territory.