Eric Wall

The Rt Rev Eric St Quintin Wall (19 April 1915 – 11 April 2011^[1]) was the second Bishop of Huntingdon from 1972^[2] to 1980 and from then on an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese of Gloucester. The son of a clergyman,^[3] he was born on 19 April 1915 and educated at Clifton College  and Brasenose College, Oxford. Ordained in 1939 he began his ecclesiastical  career with a curacy in Boston, Lincolnshire ^[4] after which he was a World War II chaplain in the RAFVR. When peace returned he held incumbencies at Malmesbury, Cricklade ^[5] and then finally (before his elevation to the Episcopate) at Westbury Park, Bristol.

Notes

^ http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=111376
^ The Times, Thursday, Mar 23, 1972; pg. 19; Issue 58434; col E D-Day chaplains are made bishops suffragan
^ The Rev. Sydney Herbert Wall Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 9780713672576
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing ISBN 9780715110300
^ List of incumbents

Church of England titles
Preceded by Robert Arnold Schürhoff Martineau	Bishop of Huntingdon 1972 – 1980	Succeeded by William Gordon Roe

Bishops of Huntingdon

Robert Martineau • Eric Wall • Gordon Roe • John Flack • John Inge • David Thomson

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Name	Wall, Eric St Quintin
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Date of birth	April 19, 1915
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Date of death	April 11, 2011
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