The Rt Rev (George) Eric Gordon (1905–1992) was an eminent Anglican bishop in the twentieth century.[1]
He was born on 29 July 1905 and educated at St Olave's Grammar School and the St Catharine's College, Cambridge.[2] Ordained in 1929[3] he began his career with a curacy at Holy Trinity, Leicester,[4] after which he was Vice-Principal of Bishop Wilson College, Isle of Man. In 1935 he became Chaplain to the Bishop of Sodor and Man. In 1942 he became Rector of Kersal then Rural Dean of Middleton. From 1951 to 1966 he was Provost of Chelmsford Cathedral[5] and Rector of Chelmsford when he ascended to the Episcopate as the Bishop of Sodor and Man,[6] a post he held for eight years.
In 1974 he retired to Eynsham in Oxfordshire. He died on 6 June 1992.
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| Preceded by William Edward Reginald Morrow |
Provost of Chelmsford 1951–1966 |
Succeeded by Hilary Martin Connop Price |
| Preceded by Benjamin Pollard |
Bishop of Sodor and Man 1966–1974 |
Succeeded by Vernon Sampson Nicholls |
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