Hugh Blackburne should not be confused with Hugh Blackburn.
Hugh Charles Blackburne was the Bishop of Thetford from 1977 until 1981.
Blackburne was born into an ecclesiastical family[1] on 4 June 1912 and educated at Marlborough[2] and Clare College, Cambridge before beginning his ordained ministry as a curate in Almondbury.[3] He was then a chaplain in the Forces and then held incumbencies at Milton, Hampshire, Harrow, the Hillsborough parishes[4] and Ranworth before being ordained to the episcopate. He died on 15 October 1995.[5]