Walter Whittingham
Walter Godfrey Whittingham (5 October 1861 – 17 June 1941) was a Church of England bishop.[1][2][3][4][5]
Education
[edit | edit source]Whittingham was educated at the City of London School and Peterhouse, Cambridge.[6]
Career
[edit | edit source]Ordained in 1886,[7] Whittingham began his career with curacies at St Margaret's Church, Leicester and St Thomas the Apostle's, South Wigston. He subsequently held incumbencies at Weedon, Buckinghamshire, Knighton, Leicestershire[8] and Glaston, Rutland. He was Archdeacon of Oakham from 1918 to 1923 when he was ordained to the episcopate as the third Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, a post he held for 17 years.[9][10] He was consecrated bishop at Westminster Abbey on 1 November 1923, by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury;[11]
Death
[edit | edit source]Whittingham died on 17 June 1941.[12]
Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ Norfolk Record Office
- ^ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
- ^ National Archives
- ^ "Handbook of British Chronology" Fryde, E.B;Greenway D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I Cambridge, CUP, 1996 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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- ^ The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory, London, Hamilton & Co 1889
- ^ Leicestershire Archaeological Society
- ^ "Ecclesiastical News. Consecration Of Three Bishops", The Times, 2 November 1923, p. 15.
- ^ The Times, Monday, Aug 19, 1940; pg. 7; Issue 48698; col D Ecclesiastical News Bishop Of St. Edmundsbury to resign
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- ^ Obituary Dr W.G. Whittingham The Times Thursday, Jun 19, 1941; pg. 7; Issue 48956; col E
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