| Type: | bishop |
| Charles A. W. Aylen | |
| Bishop of St Helena | |
| Church: | Anglican |
| Province: | Southern Africa |
| Diocese: | St Helena and Zululand |
| Birth Date: | 1882 |
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Charles Arthur William Aylen (1882 – 15 August 1972) was an Anglican bishop.[1]
Aylen was born in Wick, Scotland.[2] He was educated at Bradfield College and Keble College, Oxford.[3] [4]
He was ordained in 1906 and his first post was a curacy in Henley on Thames.[5]
He was vicar of Shiplake from 1913 to 1925. During World War I he was a Royal Navy chaplain.[6] He became a temporary chaplain in July 1916, and served on HMS St. Vincent. He was recognised as an officer of exceptional ability,a 'very fine example of all that a Chaplain should or could be'[7]
In 1926 he went to Empangeni in the Diocese of Zululand as a missionary priest. He was the bishop of Zululand from 1930 to 1935. While he was bishop of Zululand he married Elizabeth Hills.[8] He was translated to the Diocese of St Helena and was bishop there from 1935 to 1939.[9]
He was vicar of Aston Tirrold from 1939 to 1945 and Flore from 1945 to 1958 and rural dean of Weedon from 1947 to 1951. He was also a non-residentiary Canon of Peterborough (1946–1961) and an Assistant Bishop of Peterborough (1950–1963).
He married Elisabeth Margaret Anna Hills in 1932 and they had two sons and one daughter.