The Rt Rev Horace Norman Vincent Tonks was a Colonial Anglican Bishop[1] in the Windward Islands from 1936[2] until 1949. He was born in Walsall[3] on 29 January 1891 and educated at the town's Queen Mary's Grammar School and Lichfield Theological College.[4] Ordained in 1918[5], after a Curacy in Fenton he was Priest in charge of Holy Cross, Airedale[6] then Vicar of St Sampson with Holy Trinity in York. After that he was Archdeacon of Grenada for a short time before his elevation to the Episcopate. On his return to England he was Rector of Leybourne and died on 25 November 1959.[7]
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| Preceded by Vibert Jackson |
Bishop of the Windward Islands 1936 – 1949 |
Succeeded by Ronald Norman Shapley |
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