The Rt Rev Edmund Robert Morgan was the seventh Suffragan Bishop of Southampton [1]; and afterwards the ninth incumbent at Truro[2]. He was born on 28 July 1888 and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. Ordained in 1914, he began his career with curacies at Farnham and Eastleigh. He was then Chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester and after that Warden of the College of the Ascension, Selly Oak, Birmingham, for 13 years from 1923. From 1930 to 1936 he was also assistant secretary of the Societry for the Propagation of the Gospel. From 1936 to 1943 he was Rector of Old Alresford and also Archdeacon of Winchester,[3][4] a post he held until his elevation to the Episcopate. A noted author,[5] he died on 21 September 1979 at Whiteparish, Wilts.[6]
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| Preceded by Arthur Baillie Lumsdaine Karney |
Bishop of Southampton 1943 –1951 |
Succeeded by Kenneth Edward Norman Lamplugh |
| Preceded by Joseph Wellington Hunkin |
Bishop of Truro 1951 –1960 |
Succeeded by John Maurice Key |
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