{{Short description|Anglican bishop of Nigeria}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Portal|Christianity}} '''Adelakun Williamson Howells''' {{Audio|LL-Q34311 (yor)-Tunmise123-Adelakun Howells.wav|Listen|help=no}} OBE was an Anglican Bishop in the second half of the 20th century.<ref>[http://www.dioceseoflagos.org/?_com_content=03ea3280753ac6966b68876c665d0a7e&lb= History of lagos Diocese] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726000301/http://www.dioceseoflagos.org/?_com_content=03ea3280753ac6966b68876c665d0a7e&lb= |date=26 July 2011 }}</ref>
He was born on 17 September 1905,<ref>“Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}</ref> educated at King's College, Lagos and ordained in 1928.<ref>Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941</ref> He was a Tutor at the CMS Training College at Awka and then held incumbenciesat Enugu and Fourah Bay. In 1951 he became Provost of Lagos and in 1955 its third Bishop, a post he held until his death on 7 March 1963.<ref>The Times, Saturday 9 March 1963; page 10; Issue 55645; col E ''The Rt. Rev. A. W. Howells Bishop of Lagos''</ref>
==Notes== {{Reflist}} {{S-start}} {{S-rel|en}} {{S-bef|before= Leslie Gordon Vining}} {{S-ttl|title=Bishop of Lagos|years=1919 –1940}} {{S-aft|after=Seth Irunsewe Kale}} {{end}}
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