Charles Aylen

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Charles Arthur William Aylen [1] was born in 1882 and died on 15 August 1972 was an Anglican Bishop.[2]

Education

He was educated at Bradfield College and Keble College, Oxford.[3]

Career

He was ordained in 1906 and his first post was a curacy in Henley on Thames.[4]

He was Vicar of Shiplake from 1913 to 1925.

In 1926 he went to the Empangeni district in Zululand as a mission priest.

He was Bishop of Zululand from 1930 to 1935 and Bishop of St. Helena from 1935 to 1939.[5]

He was vicar of Aston Tirrold from 1939 to 1945 and Flore from 1945 to 1958 and Rural Dean of Weedon from 1947 to 1951.

Family

He married Elisabeth Margaret Anna Hills in 1932 and they had two sons and one daughter.

Notes

  1. NPG details
  2. Obituary: Rt Rev C.A.W. Aylen The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Aug 16, 1972; pg. 12; Issue 58554
  3. AYLEN, Rt Rev. Charles Arthur William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U151898, accessed 26 May 2012]
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory London, OUP, 1948
  5. Diocesan web site
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
Charles Christopher Watts
Bishop of St Helena
1935-1939
Succeeded by
Gilbert Price Lloyd Turner


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