Kenneth Dawson Evans

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Kenneth Dawson Evans was the second Suffragan Bishop of Dorking [1]. He was born on 7 November 1915 and educated at Dulwich College and Clare College, Cambridge[2].Ordained in 1938[3] he began his career with a Curacy at St Mary Northampton[4] and was then Rector of Ockley before beginning a long ecclesiastical association with the Dorking area. From 1949 he was initially Vicar, then Archdeacon before ascending to the Episcopate -a post he held from 1968 until 1986. In retirement he continued to minister, as an Assistant Bishop within the Guildford Diocese. He died on 29 June 2007.

Church of England titles
Preceded by
Interregnum
Bishop of Dorking
1968 –1986
Succeeded by
David Peter Wilcox

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 9780199540877
  2. ^ Who's Who 1992 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0713635142
  3. ^ Crockford's clerical directory London, Church House 1975 ISBN 0108153674
  4. ^ Church details