Clement Mallory Ricketts

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Clement Mallory Ricketts was the second Bishop of Dunwich from 1945 to 1955. Born on 19 August 1879 into an ecclesiastical family[1], he was educated at The King's School, Canterbury[2] and Keble College, Oxford. After ordination he became a curate at Sarum St Martin[3], after which he was Vicar of All Angels Colombo (1914-23), Rural Dean of Weymouth (1924-37) and finally (before his elevation to the Episcopate) Canon Residentiary at Gloucester Cathedral. In retirement he lived at Madehurst and died on 28 February 1961.


Church of England titles
Preceded by
Maxwell Homfray Maxwell-Gumbleton
Bishop of Dunwich
1945 – 1955
Succeeded by
Thomas Herbert Cashmore

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ His father the Rev. R. E. Ricketts, sometime Vicar of Crambe, North Yorkshire and his wife was the daughter of George Rodney Eden Bishop of Wakefield from 1897 to 1928
  2. ^ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X
  3. ^ Details of Parish