William Chadwick (bishop)

Rt Rev Bishop William Frank Percival Chadwick (27 February 1905[1] – 12 February 1991) was Bishop of Barking from 1959 to 1975.

Born in Pudsey, Yorkshire,[2] he was educated at Wadham College, Oxford[3] and studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford before a curacy in St Helen's. He was then successively Vicar of Widnes, Crouch End and Barking. In 1959, he was appointed Suffragan Bishop of Barking in the Diocese of Chelmsford,[4][5] where he remained until his retirement to Long Melford in 1975. He died in Sudbury, Suffolk in 1991.

References

  1. ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007
  2. ^ 1911 England Census
  3. ^ Who's Who1970 London, A & C Black,1971 ISBN 0-7136-1140-5
  4. ^ The Times, Tuesday, 10 February 1959; p. 8; Issue 54381; col A Bishop of Barking Nominated Canon W. F. P. Chadwick
  5. ^ "No. 41678". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 April 1959. p. 2332.
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1959–1975 		Succeeded by


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