Kenneth Charles Harman Warner (6 April 1891 – 18 March 1983) was

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from 1947 to 1961.

Biography

Warner was born on 6 April 1891 and educated at

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and Trinity College, Oxford. His first career as a solicitor was interrupted by wartime service with the Army Cyclist Corps at the end of which he was awarded the DSO.

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after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1924, he began his career with a curacy at St George's

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. After this he was a

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in the

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flying on active service in his fifties then Provost of

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. In 1938 he became

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before his ordination to the

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. He died on 18 March 1983.

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, Wednesday, 23 March 1983; pg. 12; Issue 61488; col G ''Right Rev Kenneth Warner''

References

1891 births People from Tonbridge People educated at Tonbridge School Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon Archdeacons of Lincoln Provosts of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow Bishops of Edinburgh 20th-century Scottish Episcopalian bishops 1983 deaths Royal Air Force chaplains World War II chaplains Army Cyclist Corps officers British Army personnel of World War I Royal Air Force personnel of World War II Military personnel from Kent {{UK-bishop-stub