Bernard Pawley Explained

Bernard Clinton Pawley (24 January 1911 – 15 November 1981) was an Anglican priest.

He was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire,^{[1] [2]} educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and Wadham College, Oxford and ordained in 1936.^[3] After curacies in Stoke on Trent and Leeds he was a chaplain to the British Armed Forces between 1940 and 1945. When peace returned he was Rector of Elland and then a canon residentiary at Ely Cathedral.^[4] After a brief spell in a similar role at St Paul's Cathedral he was appointed Archdeacon of Canterbury in 1972, a post he held for nine years. A noted commentator on Vatican affairs,^[5] he died in 1981.^[6]

Notes and References

1. 1911 England Census
2. Who was Who 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007
3. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
4. http://www.elycathedral.org/pdf/Organs_and_Organists.pdf Cathedral fact sheet
5. Amongst others he wrote Looking at the Vatican Council, 1962; Anglican-Roman Relations, 1964; The Second Vatican Council, 1967; and Rome and Canterbury through Four Centuries, 1975 > British Library website accessed 19 September 2010
6. "The Ven Bernard Pawley." The Times, 17 November 1981; pg. 12; Issue 61084; col G