Gordon Leslie Tindall (1911 – 24 June 1969) was the eighth

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. Tindall was educated at

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in 1936, his first post was a

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in Swinton. He then emigrated to Africa to become a

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priest. From 1939 he was

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, then director of the South Bechuanaland Mission. Later he was archdeacon of

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, then diocesan director of

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in Grahamstown before his appointment to the

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1910 births Alumni of Hatfield College, Durham Anglican archdeacons in Africa 20th-century Anglican Church of Southern Africa bishops Anglican bishops of Grahamstown 1969 deaths People from Qonce {{Africa-Anglican-bishop-stub