Hugh Hordern

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Memorial within Chichester Cathedral

The Rt Rev. Hugh Maudslay Hordern was the sixth Bishop of Lewes. He was the great-grandson of the inventor Henry Maudslay and one of the founders of the Maudslay Society.^[1] He was born on 28 September 1868 and educated at Winchester ^[2] and Christ Church College, Oxford.^[3] He married Edith Augusta Sandeman, daughter of John Glas Sandeman. He began his career with a Curacy at Warnham after which he was Rector of Singleton, West Sussex before World War I service as a Chaplain to the Forces. From here he was Vicar of St Nicholas, Brighton and then Archdeacon of Lewes before elevation to the Episcopate in 1929,^[4] serving eventually for seventeen years.^[5] He died in post on 25 March 1949. His grandson Peter Hordern was Member of Parliament (MP) for Horsham from 1964 to 1997.

Notes

↑ Material within National Archive
↑ thePeerage.com
↑ Who’s Who London, A & C Black,1992 ISBN 0-7136-3514-2
↑ The Times, Thursday, Oct 03, 1929; pg. 14; Issue 45324; col C New Bishop Of Lewes Archdeacon Hordern Appointed
↑ The Times, Thursday, Jul 18, 1946; pg. 6; Issue 50506; col G Ecclesiastical News- Bishop of Lewes to retire

Church of England titles
Preceded by William Champion Streatfeild	Bishop of Lewes 1929 – 1946	Succeeded by Geoffrey Hodgson Warde

v t e Bishops of Lewes

Leonard Burrows Herbert Jones Henry Southwell Thomas Cook William Streatfeild Hugh Hordern Geoffrey Warde James Morrell Peter Ball Ian Cundy Wallace Benn

v t e Diocese of Chichester

Chichester Cathedral The Palace, Chichester Diocesan Church House, Hove

Office holders	The Bishop of Chichester, Martin Warner The area Bishop of Horsham, Mark Sowerby The area Bishop of Lewes (Vacant) AEO: Norman Banks, Bishop suffragan of Richborough The Dean of Chichester, Nicholas Frayling The Archdeacon of Chichester, Douglas McKittrick The Archdeacon of Horsham, Roger Combes The Archdeacon of Lewes and Hastings, Philip Jones

Persondata
Name	Horndern, Hugh Maudslay
Alternative names
Short description	British bishop
Date of birth	1929
Place of birth
Date of death	1949
Place of death

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