INGE, WILLIAM RALPH (1860– ), English divine, was born June 6, 186o, at Crayke, Yorks., the son of William Inge, sometime provost of Worcester college, Oxford, and was educated at Eton, and at King's college, Cambridge. From 1884 to 1888 he was a master at Eton, and during the last two years of that time was fellow of King's college, Cambridge. From 1889 to 5904 he was fellow of Hertford college, Oxford. Bampton lecturer in 1899, and Paddock lecturer in New York in 1906, from 1905 to 5907 he was vicar of All Saints', Ennismore Gardens, Lon don, and in 1907 was made Lady Margaret professor of divinity at Cambridge. In 1911 he became dean of St. Paul's, where his ser mons attracted great attention owing to their originality, their caustic criticism of the tendencies of modern life and a somewhat pessimistic tone which earned him the sobriquet "the gloomy dean." He received the K.C.V.O. in 193o, and retired in Among Inge's numerous works may be mentioned Society in Rome under the Caesars (1888) ; Christian Mysticism (1899) ; Types of Christian Saintliness (1915) ; Philosophy of Plotinus (1918) ; Out spoken Essays (1919, Second Series 1922) ; Personal Religion and the Life of Devotion (1924) ; The Church in the World: Collected Essays (1928) .