Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs (2 February 1845 – 14 April 1922), until 1898 known as Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman, was an influential
Church of England
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clergyman
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who served as the only
Bishop of Southwark to be a
suffragan bishop
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(in the
Diocese of Rochester
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), the 105th
Bishop of Worcester
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and, latterly, as the inaugural bishop of the restored
see
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* Television
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of
Coventry
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in the modern era.
Yeatman was born at Manston House,
Dorset
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, the younger son of Harry Fa