Michael Vickers

The Rt Rev Michael Edwin Vickers was Bishop of Colchester from 1988 to 1994. He was born on 13 January 1929^[1] and educated at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate and Worcester College, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Christ Church, Bexleyheath^[2] after which he was Senior Chaplain at Lee Abbey.^[3] Following this he was Vicar of St John’s Newland, Hull.^[4] Later he became Rural Dean of Hull and then (his final appointment before elevation to the Episcopate^[5]) Archdeacon of the East Riding. In retirement he continues to serve the Diocese of Blackburn as an Assistant Bishop.

He owns a photograph of his great-great-great-grandmother who is earliest-born authenticated person to appear in a photograph. Mary Buckingham (born in 1750) died, aged 101, in 1851. The photograph was taken c.1850.

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Preceded by Roderic Norman Coote	Bishop of Colchester 1988 – 1994	Succeeded by Edward Holland

Notes

^ Who's Who 1992 “(London, A & C Black ISBN 0713635142)
^ Curate’s License within The national Archives
^ “Crockford's clerical directory, 1995” (Lambeth, Church House ISBN 0715180886)
^ Church web-site
^ ”Debrett's People of Today 1992” (London, Debrett's) ISBN 1870520092)

Bishops of Colchester

Alfred Blomfield · Henry Johnson · Robert Whitcombe · Thomas Chapman · Charles Ridsdale · Frederick Narborough · Roderic Coote · Michael Vickers · Edward Holland · Christopher Morgan

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Name	Vickers, Michael Edwin
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Date of birth	1929
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