Hubert Arthur Stanley Pink (22 January 1905 – 22 December 1976) was

Archdeacon of Hampstead The Archdeacon of Hampstead is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of London, named after, and based in and around, the Hampstead area of London. He or she is the priest responsible for the Archdeaconry of Hampstead. H ...

from 1964 to 1974. Pink was educated at

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, Selwyn College Cambridge and

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. He was

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in 1929 and began his career as Chaplain of his old school. He was

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from 1935 to 1938;

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from 1938 to 1945;

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for the

Diocese of Chelmsford The Diocese of Chelmsford is a Church of England diocese, part of the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers Essex and the five East London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, and Waltham Forest (most of which wer ...

from 1945 to 1947;

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for the

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from 1947 to 1951;

of Hackney from 1951 to 1965; and then of

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from 1965 to 1974. He was also

Examining Chaplain A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution (such as a hospital, prison, military unit, intelligence ...

to the

Bishop of London A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...

from 1964 to 1973.‘PINK, Ven. Hubert Arthur Stanley’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 201
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1905 births 1976 deaths Archdeacons of Hampstead Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge Alumni of Westcott House, Cambridge People educated at Ipswich School {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub