The Archdeacon of Plymouth is a senior clergy position in the

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and is responsible for the supervision of the clergy within the five rural deaneries:

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, Plymouth Moorside, Plymouth Devonport,

Plymouth Sutton Plymouth, Sutton was, from 1918 until 2010, a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. History Pl ...

and

Tavistock Tavistock ( ) is an ancient stannary and market town within West Devon, England. It is situated on the River Tavy from which its name derives. At the 2011 census the three electoral wards (North, South and South West) had a population of 13,028 ...

. The archdeaconry was created by an

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splitting the Archdeaconry of Totnes on 22 March 1918. The current archdeacon is Nick Shutt.

List of archdeacons

*19181920 (res.):

Arthur Perowne Arthur William Thomson Perowne (13 June 18679 April 1948) was an Anglican bishop in Britain. He was the first Bishop of Bradford and, from 1931, was the Bishop of Worcester. Birth family and education Perowne was born into a distinguished ecc ...

*192128 April 1928 (d.):

Ernest Newman Ernest Newman (30 November 1868 – 7 July 1959) was an English music critic and musicologist. ''Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' describes him as "the most celebrated British music critic in the first half of the 20th century." His ...

*19281950 (ret.):

Whitfield Daukes Francis Whitfield Daukes (27 March 1877 – 30 July 1954) was a Church of England bishop. Daukes was born into a clerical family as the eldest son of the Reverend Samuel Whitfield Daukes, sometime Vicar of Holy Trinity, Beckenham. He was educa ...

(also Bishop suffragan of Plymouth from 1934) *19501962 (ret.): Norman Clarke, Bishop suffragan of Plymouth *19621978 (res.):

Frederick Matthews Frederick Albert John Matthews (4 January 1913 – 14 May 1985) was the Archdeacon of Plymouth from 1962 to 1978. Matthews was educated at Devonport High School for Boys, Exeter College, Oxford and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford After a curacy at Stok ...

(afterwards archdeacon emeritus) *19781982 (res.):

Kenneth Newing Kenneth Albert Newing OSB (29 August 192315 May 2019) was the Anglican Bishop of Plymouth from 1982 to 1988. Newing was educated at Dover Grammar School for Boys and Selwyn College, Cambridge. After a period of study at The College of the Res ...

(became Bishop suffragan of Plymouth) *19822000 (ret.):

Robin Ellis Anthony Robin Ellis (born 8 January 1942) is a British actor and cookbook writer best known for his role as Captain Ross Poldark in 29 episodes of the BBC classic series ''Poldark'', adapted from a series of books by the British author Winsto ...

*20012010 (ret.): Tony Wilds *201031 December 2018 (ret.): Ian Chandler (on leave during 2018)National Archdeacons' Forum — Archdeacons’ News — #30, January 2018
(Accessed 22 February 2018) *18 June 2019present: Nick Shutt (Acting since 2018)

References

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