David Cartwright Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Rt Revd
David Cartwright
Honorific-Suffix:MA(Cantab)
Bishop of Southampton
Diocese:Diocese of Winchester
Term:1984–1989
Predecessor:John Cavell
Successor:John Perry
Other Post:Archdeacon of Winchester (1973–1984)
Ordination:1943 (deacon); 1944 (priest)
Consecration:1984
Birth Date:15 July 1920
Religion:Anglican
Parents:John Edward Cartwright & Gertrude Lusby
Spouse:Elsie Rogers (m. 1946)
Children:1 son; 2 daughters
Alma Mater:Selwyn College, Cambridge

Edward David Cartwright (15 July 1920 – 24 April 1997) was the tenth Suffragan Bishop of Southampton.[1]

Cartwright was educated at Lincoln Grammar School and Selwyn College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1944,[2] he began his career with a curacy in Boston, Lincolnshire and was then Vicar of St Leonard's, Redfield, Bristol.[3] After that he held further incumbencies at Olveston, Bishopston and Sparsholt and was then Archdeacon of Winchester before appointment to the episcopate, a post he held from 1984[4] until 1989.

References

  1. ‘CARTWRIGHT, Rt Rev. (Edward) David’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007 http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U177427, accessed 9 July 2012
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20021008023911/http://www.geocities.com/churchcrawler/bristol/redfield.htm Photo of church
  4. [The Times]