Stuart Blanch, Baron Blanch

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Stuart Yarworth Blanch, Baron Blanch, PC (2 February 1918–3 June 1994) was Bishop of Liverpool from 1966 to 1975 when he was invested as a Privy Counsellor, and enthroned as Archbishop of York in the same year, holding the post until 1983. On 5 September 1983, he was made a life peer, being created Baron Blanch, of Bishopthorpe in the County of North Yorkshire.

Blanch was born at Lydney in the Forest of Dean and attended Alleyn's School, Dulwich. During World War Two he served in the RAF as a navigator, flying with Transport Command. Part of his service took him to India, where he visited the Dohnavur Fellowship and met the renowned missionary Amy Carmichael. On demobilisation Blanch went up to Oxford and was ordained in 1949. He served five years as a vicar, then successively held the posts of vice-Principal of Wycliffe Theological College, Oxford and Warden of Rochester Theological College.

Religious Posts
Preceded by Clifford Arthur Martin	Bishop of Liverpool 1966–1975	Succeeded by David Stuart Sheppard
Preceded by Frederick Donald Coggan	Archbishop of York 1975–1983	Succeeded by John Stapylton Habgood