Stretton Reeve

(Arthur) Stretton Reeve (11 June 1907 – 27 January 1981^[1]) was Bishop of Lichfield from 1953^[2] until 1974.
Born into an ecclesiastical family,^[3] he was educated at Brighton College and Selwyn College, Cambridge. His first post after ordination was as a curate in Putney after which he was Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester then Vicar of Highfield, Hampshire.^[4] From 1943 he was Rural Dean of Leeds.^[5] before elevation to the Episcopate^[6]

Notes

^ Obituary- The Right Rev A. S. Reeve Former Bishop of Lichfield The Times Thursday, Jan 29, 1981; pg. 17; Issue 60838; col G
^ Two New Bishops Nominated Birmingham And Lichfield The Times Friday, 19 June 1953; p. 8; Issue 52652; col D
^ His father was of the Rev. Arthur Reeve > “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
^ Leodis
^ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives

Church of England titles
Preceded by Edward Sydney Woods	Bishop of Lichfield 1953–1974	Succeeded by Kenneth John Fraser Skelton

Bishops of Lichfield (since the Reformation)

Lichfield & Coventry	Rowland Lee • Richard Sampson • Ralph Baines • Thomas Bentham • William Overton • George Abbot • Richard Neile • John Overall • Thomas Morton • Robert Wright • Accepted Frewen • John Hacket • Thomas Wood • William Lloyd • John Hough • Edward Chandler • Richard Smalbroke • The Hon Frederick Cornwallis • John Egerton • Brownlow North • Richard Hurd • The Hon James Cornwallis • The Hon Henry Ryder • Samuel Butler

Lichfield	Samuel Butler • James Bowstead • John Lonsdale • George Selwyn • William Maclagan • The Hon Augustus Legge • John Kempthorne • Edward Woods • Stretton Reeve • Kenneth Skelton • Keith Sutton • Jonathan Gledhill