Richard Fox Cartwright (10 November 191310 April 2009) was the Anglican Bishop of Plymouth from 1972 to 1982.[1] [2]
Cartwright was born [3] son of George Frederick Cartwright (1874 - 1938), M.A., vicar of Plumstead from 1928 to 1938, Organising Secretary of the White Cross League from 1910 to 1915;[4] [5] he was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Pembroke College, Cambridge. After he was deaconed (during Advent 1936) and priested (the following Advent) — both times by Richard Parsons, Bishop of Southwark, at Southwark Cathedral, he was a curate at St Anselm's Kennington Cross[6] and then priest in charge of Lower Kingswood. He was then Vicar of Surbiton, Redcliffe, Bristol[7] and Silverton, Devon before being ordained to the episcopate. He was consecrated on by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 29 September 1972 at Westminster Abbey; in retirement he was an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Truro.[8]
He married Rosemary Magdalen (1919-2002), daughter of Lloyd's member Francis Evelyn Bray, of Woking,[9] in 1947, and had a son and three daughters.[10] A daughter, Jane, married Miranda (then Roger) Cunliffe Turner, son of Sir (Ronald) Mark Cunliffe Turner (1906-1980), chairman of BHS; their son is the musician Frank Turner.[11] [12]