Walter Whittingham

Walter Godfrey Whittingham (5 October 1861 – 17 June 1941) was a Church of England bishop.[1][2][3][4][5]

Education

Whittingham was educated at the City of London School and Peterhouse, Cambridge.[6]

Career

Ordained in 1886,[7] he began his career with curacies at St Margaret's Church, Leicester and St Thomas the Apostle's, South Wigston. After this he held incumbencies at Weedon, Buckinghamshire, Knighton, Leicestershire[8] and Glaston, Rutland. He was Archdeacon of Oakham from 1918 to 1923 when he was ordained to the episcopate as the third Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, a post he held for 17 years.[9][10] He was consecrated bishop at Westminster Abbey on 1 November 1923, by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury;[11]

Death

Whittingham died on 17 June 1941.[12]

Notes

1. Norfolk Record Office
2. National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
3. National Archives
4. "Handbook of British Chronology" Fryde,E.B;Greenway D.E;Porter,S;Roy,I Cambridge, CUP,1996 ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5
5. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
6. "Whittingham, Walkter Godfrey (WHTN884WG)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
7. The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory, London, Hamilton & Co 1889
8. Leicestershire Archaeological Society
9. "Ecclesiastical News. Consecration Of Three Bishops", The Times, 2 November 1923, p. 15.
10. The Times, Monday, Aug 19, 1940; pg. 7; Issue 48698; col D Ecclesiastical News Bishop Of St. Edmundsbury to resign
11. "Westminster Abbey. Consecration of Bishops". Church Times (#3171). 2 November 1923. p. 486. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 5 January 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
12. Obituary Dr W.G. Whittingham The Times Thursday, Jun 19, 1941; pg. 7; Issue 48956; col E