Robert Martineau

Robert Arnold Schürhoff Martineau (22 August 1913 – 28 June 1999) was a British clergyman who was the first Bishop of Huntingdon and who was later translated to Blackburn.

Educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham,^[1] and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1955. His first post was as a curate at Melksham^[2] after which he was a World War II chaplain in the RAFVR.

When peace returned he became Vicar of Ovenden, Halifax, and then Allerton, Merseyside,^[3] before his ordination to the episcopate^[4]”.

References

^ “Who was Who” 1897-1990, London, A & C Black, 1991, ISBN 071363457X
^ Independent Obituary
^ Crockfords,(London, Church House 1975) ISBN 0715180886
^ Bishop Of Huntingdon, The Times, 18 October 1965; pg. 12; Issue 56451; col G

Church of England titles
Preceded by Inaugural appointment	Bishop of Huntingdon 1965 – 1972	Succeeded by Eric St Quintin Wall
Preceded by Charles Robert Claxton	Bishop of Blackburn 1972 – 1981	Succeeded by David Stewart Cross

Bishops of Huntingdon

Robert Martineau • Eric Wall • Gordon Roe • John Flack • John Inge • David Thomson

Bishops of Blackburn

Percy Herbert • Wilfred Askwith • Walter Baddeley • Charles Claxton • Robert Martineau • Stewart Cross • Alan Chesters • Nicholas Reade

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Name	Martineau, Robert
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Date of birth	22 August 1913
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Date of death	28 June 1999
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