Horace Tonks

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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]

Notes

↑ 'W.Temple/1-62/28'&dsqCmd=Show.tcl National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
↑ Ecclesiastical News Bishop Of The Windward Islands The Times Monday, Jul 06, 1936; pg. 9; Issue 47419; col B
↑ Pitts Theology Library
↑ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
↑ Photo of church
↑ The Times, Friday, Nov 27, 1959; pg. 17; Issue 54629; col C Obituary Rt. Rev. H. N. V. Tonks

Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by Vibert Jackson	Bishop of the Windward Islands 1936 – 1949	Succeeded by Ronald Norman Shapley

v t e Bishops of the Windward Islands

Alfred Berkeley Vibert Jackson Horace Tonks Ronald Shapley Harold Piggott Cuthbert Woodroffe Philip Elder Sehon Goodridge Leopold Friday

v t e Church in the Province of the West Indies

Bishop of Barbados Anglican Diocese of Belize Diocese of Guyana Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands Bishop of Nassau and The Bahamas Bishop of North East Caribbean and Aruba Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago Diocese of the Windward Islands

Persondata
Name	Tonks, Horace Norman Vincent
Alternative names
Short description	British archbishop
Date of birth	1891
Place of birth
Date of death	1959
Place of death

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