Hugh Edward Ashdown[1] was an eminent Anglican clergyman in the mid 20th Century.[2] Born on 5 July 1904[3] and educated at St. John's School, Leatherhead and Keble College, Oxford, his first post after ordination was as a curate at St Mary’s Portsea.[4] He was then a Chaplain and Lecturer at Lincoln Theological College and then the Perpetual Curate of St Aidan’s, West Hartlepool and after that Rector of Houghton-le-Spring.[5] From 1948 he was the Provost of Southwark Cathedral. In 1957 he was elevated to the Episcopate as the 8th Bishop of Newcastle, a post he held for 16 years. He died on Boxing Day 1977.
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| Preceded by Cuthbert Bardsley |
Provost of Southwark 1948–1957 |
Succeeded by George Reindorp |
| Preceded by Noel Hudson |
Bishop of Newcastle 1957–1973 |
Succeeded by Ronald Bowlby |
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