Robert Sidney Ladds

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The Rt Rev. Robert Sidney Ladds is the current Suffragan Bishop of Whitby ^[1]. He was born on 15 November 1941 and educated at Canterbury Christ Church University ^[2]. Ordained in 1981^[3] he began his career with a curacy in Hythe, Kent ^[4] and was then successively Chaplain to the Bishop of Blackburn, Vicar of Bretherton and finally (before his elevation to the Episcopate) Archdeacon of Lancaster. A keen gardener^[5] he was a research chemist before becoming a clergyman.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Gordon Bates	Bishop of Stafford 1999 –	Succeeded by Current Incumbent

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Crockfords On-line- accessed 21 March 2008
2. ^ Who's Who 2008 (London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 9780713672576
3. ^ Burke's Peerage On-line
4. ^ Crockfords,(London, Church House 1995) ISBN 0715180886
5. ^ Who's Who (ibid)

v • d • e Bishops of Whitby Henry St John Stirling Woollcombe  • Harold Evelyn Hubbard • Walter Hubert Baddeley • Philip William Wheeldon • George D'Oyly Snow  • John Yates  • Clifford Conder Barker • Gordon Bates • Robert Sidney Ladds •