Frederick Ochterloney Taylor Hawkes (22 November 187826 January 1966) was the fourth
Bishop of Kingston
The Bishop of Kingston (technically of ''Kingston upon Thames'' or, originally, of ''Kingston-on-Thames'') is an episcopal title used by an area bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Southwark, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The t ...
.
Hawkes was educated at
Magdalen College, Oxford
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and was ordained in 1903.
He became a
curate
A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy w ...
at
St Mary's Church, Portsea, and then
Vicar of
Aldershot. In the
First World War he was commissioned as a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces in May 1918, and was posted to France attached to the
Coldstream Guards. By May 1919, he had been promoted to Senior Chaplain with the Guards Division. A report on him referred to his "excellent work as a chaplain". In 1919, he was appointed Rector of Lambeth and
Archdeacon of Southwark
The Archdeacons in the Diocese of Southwark are senior clergy in the Church of England in South London and Surrey. They currently include: the archdeacons of Southwark, of Reigate (formerly of Kingston-on-Thames) and of Lewisham & Greenwich ...
before his ordination to the
episcopate, a post he held until retirement to
Oxted
Oxted is a town and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey, England, at the foot of the North Downs. It is south south-east of Croydon in Greater London, west of Sevenoaks in Kent, and north of East Grinstead in West Sussex.
Oxte ...
in 1952. He died in 1966.
An obituary contrasted his Victorian garb of frock coat, gaiters and silk hat with his commitment to the back-streets of the diocese which he knew intimately and whose inhabitants he supported conscientiously. Some of his correspondence is housed within
The National Archives.
Details of collection
National Archives
References
1878 births
Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
Archdeacons of Southwark
Bishops of Kingston
20th-century Church of England bishops
1966 deaths
Place of birth missing
Place of death missing
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