Hugh Ashdown
Hugh Edward Ashdown[1] (5 July 1904[2] – 26 December 1977) was an eminent Anglican clergyman in the mid 20th Century.[3]
Ashdown was educated at St. John's School, Leatherhead and Keble College, Oxford, his first post after ordination was as a curate at St Mary’s Portsea, Portsmouth.[4] He was then a Chaplain and Lecturer at Lincoln Theological College and then the Perpetual Curate of St Aidan’s, West Hartlepool and after that Rector of Houghton-le-Spring.[5] From 1948 he was the Provost of Southwark Cathedral. After his nomination on 15 March, he was consecrated to the Episcopate on 1 May 1957 as the 8th Bishop of Newcastle, a post he held for 16 years until his 2 October 1972 retirement. He died on Boxing Day 1977.
References[]
- ^ NPG details
- ^ Who's Who 1970 ISBN 0-7136-1140-5
- ^ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives[permanent dead link]
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
- ^ Rectors of Houghton-le-Spring[permanent dead link]
Categories:
- 1904 births
- People educated at St John's School, Leatherhead
- Alumni of Keble College, Oxford
- Provosts and Deans of Southwark
- Bishops of Newcastle
- Alumni of Lincoln Theological College
- 20th-century Church of England bishops
- 1977 deaths