Hugh Charles Blackburne was the

Bishop of Thetford The Bishop of Thetford is an episcopal title which takes its name after the market town of Thetford in Norfolk, England. The title was originally used by the Normans in the 11th century, and is now used by a Church of England suffragan bishop. ...

from 1977 until 1981. Blackburne was born into an ecclesiastical family on 4 June 1912 and educated at Marlborough and

Clare College, Cambridge Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college was founded in 1326 as University Hall, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. It was refound ...

before beginning his ordained ministry as a curate in

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. He was then a chaplain in the Forces and then held incumbencies at Milton, Hampshire, Harrow, the Hillsborough parishesDetails within The National Archives
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. He died on 15 October 1995.

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