William Warren Hunt (called Warren; 22 January 190929 September 1994) was the inaugural

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from 1965 to 1977; and from then until his death an

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within the

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. He was educated at

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1970 London,

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, 1971 and

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. He was deaconed on St Thomas' day 1932 (21 December), by

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, at

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chapel and priested the following year. In 1935 he made a sideways move to

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during which time he married Mollie Green: together they had four daughters. From 1940 to the end of the World War II, he was a Chaplain to the Forces after which he became

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of St Nicholas

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. He was then successively

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and

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before his appointment to the

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. He was consecrated a bishop on 30 November 1965 by

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, at

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. In 1976, he announced his retirement'' Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975–76'' London: Oxford University Press, 1976 and the following year moved to

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where he lived until his death.

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