William Somers Llewellyn (16 August 190722 July 2001) was the inaugural

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from 1963 until 1972. Educated at

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and Balliol, he was deaconed on Trinity Sunday 1935 (16 June) and priest the next Trinity Sunday (7 June 1937) – both times by

Arthur Winnington-Ingram Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram (26 January 1858 – 26 May 1946) was Bishop of London from 1901 to 1939. Early life and career He was born in the rectory at Stanford-on-Teme, Worcestershire, the fourth son of Edward Winnington-Ingram (a Ch ...

, Bishop of London at

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– and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at

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. From 1940 until 1946 he was a chaplain to the Forces and then vicar of Tetbury, from when on he was to have a deep affinity with the area. Additionally rural dean of the area from 1955, in 1961 he was appointed Archdeacon of Lynn and

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a year later: he was consecrated a bishop by Michael Ramsey,

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, on 18 October 1963 at Westminster Abbey. On retirement he continued to serve the church as an

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within the Diocese of Gloucester.

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1907 births People educated at Eton College Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford 2001 deaths Bishops of Lynn 20th-century Church of England bishops Archdeacons of Lynn World War II chaplains Royal Army Chaplains' Department officers {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub