Robert Martineau

This article is about the Church of England bishop. For the English painter, see Robert Braithwaite Martineau.

Robert Arnold Schürhoff Martineau (22 August 1913 – 28 June 1999) was a British bishop who was the first Bishop of Huntingdon and who was later translated to Blackburn.

Born in Birmingham and educated at King Edward's School[1] and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1938. His first post was as a curate at Melksham[2] after which he was a World War II chaplain in the RAFVR.

When peace returned he became Vicar of Ovenden, Halifax, and then Allerton, Merseyside,[3] before his ordination to the episcopate.[4]

He died in Denbigh, Clwyd.

References

1. Who Was Who 1897–2007. London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
2. Independent Obituary
3. Crockfords,(London, Church House 1975) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
4. Bishop of Huntingdon, The Times, 18 October 1965; p. 12; Issue 56451; col G

Church of England titles
Preceded by Inaugural appointment	Bishop of Huntingdon 1965 – 1972	Succeeded by Eric St Quintin Wall
Preceded by Charles Robert Claxton	Bishop of Blackburn 1972 – 1981	Succeeded by David Stewart Cross