Religion: Big Tui

“My brain is revolving,” cried Bishop Kinsolving.

“Heigh, ho, we’ll blow the man down!”

Thus, at the University of Virginia, where most of them have gone, a famed, hearty family of U.S. churchmen is immortalized in a drinking song. During the past 100 years, nine of the Kinsolvings of Virginia have become Protestant Episcopal clergymen. Last week the family could boast its third bishop: the Rt. Rev. Arthur Barksdale (“Big Tui”) Kinsolving II, 50, new bishop of Arizona.

Handsome Arthur Kinsolving was nicknamed “Tui” (Portuguese diminutive for Arthur) while his father, the Rt. Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, was serving as first Episcopal Bishop of Brazil. Big Tui has served as chaplain at West Point (six years), as dean of Long Island’s Cathedral of the Incarnation, as rector of Pittsburgh’s Calvary Church.

Other living Kinsolving clergymen: Cousins Arthur Lee (“Little Tui”), popular youth leader and rector of Trinity Church, Princeton, N.J.; Charles J., rector of the Church of the Holy Faith, Santa Fe, N. Mex.; Walter Ovid, rector of Calvary Church, Summit, N.J.; Uncles Wythe L. and Arthur B., retired.