Charles M. Bishop

Charles McTyeire Bishop (February 2, 1862 – November 30, 1949) was an American academic administrator, college professor, and Methodist minister. He was a president of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Bishop was also the founder of Alpha Chi collegiate honor society.

Early life Bishop was born in Jefferson, North Carolina, on February 2, 1862. His parents were Mary (née Shannon) and B. W. S. Bishop, a prominent minister with the Holston Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He had a brother, David, who became a professor at the University of Mississippi. He earned a Doctor of Divinity degree.

Career

Clergy Bishop was a Methodist minister. He became the pastor of the Melrose Methodist Church in Kansas City, Missouri, in January 1890. He was pastor of the Brooklyn Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church (South) in Kansas City in 1896. He was the pastor the Francis Street Methodist Church in St. Joseph, Missouri in 1903, where he started a campaign against crime. He became the co-president of St. Joseph's Ministerial Alliance in 1904. In 1910, he moved to Fort Worth, Texas, serving in the North Texas Conference. In April 1909, Bishop presented the Cole Lectures at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Bishop was elected the president of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, on June 9, 1911. Bishop left the university's presidency in 1921.

In 1924, he became a professor in the School of Theology at Southern Methodist University.

Personal life Bishop was married to Phoebe Eleanor Jones. The couple had four daughters.