{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Portal|Christianity}}'''Eric Henry Knell''' (1 April 1903<ref>Who was Who 1897-2007: London, A & C Black, 2008, {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}</ref> &ndash; January 1987)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.purley.eu/H442.htm |title=Area Bishops |access-date=2012-06-09 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130213100414/http://www.purley.eu/H442.htm |archive-date=2013-02-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was the Bishop of Reading from 1954 until 1972.<ref>The Times, Thursday, Jan 13, 1972; pg. 14; Issue 58374; col C ''Resignation of the Bishop of Reading''</ref>

Knell was educated at Trinity College, Oxford and ordained in 1929.<ref>''Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76'' London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}}</ref> Beginning his ministry with a curacy at ''St Barnabas, Southfields''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stbarnabas-online.org/HomeFrames.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828023359/http://www.stbarnabas-online.org/HomeFrames.htm |archive-date=2008-08-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref> he was successively: Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Lincoln; Priest in charge of the ''Trinity College, Oxford, Mission'' in Stratford; Vicar of ''Emmanuel, Forest Gate'', then ''Christ Church, Reading'';<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rdgchristchurch.org/|title=Church Web Site 1|work=rdgchristchurch.org}}</ref> and finally, before his appointment to the episcopate, Archdeacon of Berkshire.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.purley.eu/H3P/YB.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-09-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720171225/http://www.purley.eu/H3P/YB.pdf |archivedate=2011-07-20 }}</ref> In 1972 he retired to Lingfield, Surrey and continued to serve the Church as an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese of Oxford.

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