Richard Cartwright (bishop) explained

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]

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Notes and References

  1. "New Bishop of Plymouth", The Times, 11 May 1972, p. 18.
  2. [Crockford's clerical directory|Crockford's Online]
  3. [Who's Who (UK)|Who’s Who 2008]
  4. Alumni Cantabrigienses, Volume 2: From 1752 to 1900, Part 1: Abbey-Challis, ed. John Venn, J. A. Venn, Cambridge University Press, 2011, p. 531
  5. News: The Right Rev Richard Cartwright: Bishop of Plymouth.
  6. http://www.southwark.anglican.org/parishes/186cp1.htm Church details
  7. The Times, 4 October 1951, p. 8, "Ecclesiastical News"
  8. The Times, 29 July 1982, p. 12, "Church news Appointments"
  9. Girton College Register: 1869-1946, privately printed for Girton College, 1948, p. 537
  10. Web site: Obituary: THE RT REVD RICHARD CARTWRIGHT.
  11. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage 2003, vol. 3, p. 4027
  12. News: The Right Rev Richard Cartwright: Bishop of Plymouth.