Henry Wolfe Baines (2 February 1905 – 29 November 1972) was an Anglican bishop.[1]
Baines was educated at Repton School and Balliol College, Oxford.[2] After theological studies at Ripon College Cuddesdon he was ordained in 1930 and began his ordained ministry as a curate at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin.[3] From 1934 he was chaplain of St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong,[4] then Vicar of St Nicholas Radford, Coventry and finally, before his ordination to the episcopate, the Rural Dean of Rugby. In 1949 he became Bishop of Singapore[5] and in 1960 he was translated to be the Bishop of Wellington.
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| Preceded by John Leonard Wilson |
Bishop of Singapore 1949 – 1960 |
Succeeded by Cyril Kenneth Sansbury |
| Preceded by Reginald Herbert Owen |
Bishop of Wellington 1960 – 1972 |
Succeeded by Edward Kinsella Norman |
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