Richard Dyke Acland

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Richard Dyke Acland (3 October 1881 – 4 January 1954) was a British clergyman.

The son of Reverend Henry Dyke Acland and Adelaide Clementina Hart Davis, and descendant of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet [1], he was educated in Keble College, Oxford[2],where he received a Master of Arts. Dyke Acland served in the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry and reached the rank of Captain. Curate from 1905 to 1910 in St Mary, Slough[3], he became a missionary for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in the following year and proselytized in Ahmednagar, India. Between 1925 and 1929, he was the society's secretary, and between then and 1947 Bishop of Bombay[4]. Decorated with the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal in 1947, he was Assistant to the Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1948 to 1954.

Church of England titles
Preceded by
Edwin James Palmer		 Bishop of Bombay
1929 – 1947		 Succeeded by
William Quinlan Lash

[edit] References

  1. ^ thePeerage.com
  2. ^ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X
  3. ^ Church Web Site
  4. ^ Who was Who (Ibid)
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