William Chadwick (bishop)

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Rt Rev Bishop ''' William Frank Percival Chadwick ''' (27 February 1905<ref name="death">''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007''</ref> – 12 February 1991) was Bishop of Barking from 1959 to 1975.

Born in Pudsey, Yorkshire,<ref name="1911census">''1911 England Census''</ref> he was educated at Wadham College, Oxford<ref>Who's Who1970 London, A & C Black,1971 {{ISBN|0-7136-1140-5}}</ref> and studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford before a curacy in St Helen's. He was then successively Vicar of Widnes, Crouch End and Barking. In 1959, he was appointed Suffragan Bishop of Barking in the Diocese of Chelmsford,<ref>''The Times'', Tuesday, 10 February 1959; p. 8; Issue 54381; col A ''Bishop of Barking Nominated Canon W. F. P. Chadwick''</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=41678|supp=y|page=2332|date=10 April 1959}}</ref> where he remained until his retirement to Long Melford in 1975. He died in Sudbury, Suffolk in 1991.

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