Walter Pym

Walter Ruthven Pym (22 June 1856 - 2 March 1908) was an English colonial bishop at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

The son of Alexander Pym and Eliza Elizabeth Pell, he was educated at Bedford School and Magdalene College, Cambridge.^[1] Ordained in 1881, after a curacy in Lytham he was successively Vicar of Miles Platting, Wentworth and Sharrow before being appointed Rural Dean of Rotherham. In 1898 he ascended to the Episcopate where he developed (according to his Times obituary) a “vigorous and moderate evangelistic style”.^[2]

He married Lucy Anne Threlfall, daughter of Thomas Threlfall, on 8 August 1883. Their daughter Lucy Barbara Pym MBE (1895–1979) married Sir Edward Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet. Their son Leslie Ruthven Pym (1884–1945) was Conservative MP for Monmouth from 1939–1945, and his son, Francis Pym (1922–2008) was a Conservative MP from 1961–1987 and a cabinet minister.

Church of England titles
Preceded by William Walsh	Bishop of Mauritius 1898 – 1903	Succeeded by Francis Ambrose Gregory
Preceded by James Macarthur	Bishop of Bombay 1903 – 1908	Succeeded by Edwin James Palmer

Notes

1. ↑ "Pym, Walter Ruthven (PN875WR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. 
2. ↑ Tuesday, Mar 03, 1908; pg. 5; Issue 38584; col E Obituary The Bishop of Bombay

v t e Bishops of Mauritius Vincent Ryan Thomas Hatchard Henry Huxtable Peter Royston William Walsh Walter Pym Francis Gregory Cyril Golding-Bird Hugh Otter-Barry Alan Rogers Edwin Curtis Ghislain Emmanuel Trevor Huddleston Rex Donat Ian Ernest

v t e Anglican bishops of Bombay Thomas Carr John Harding Henry Douglas Louis Mylne James Macarthur Walter Pym Edwin Palmer Richard Acland William Lash Christopher Robinson Arthur Luther Dinesh Chandra Gorai Prakash Patole

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Name	Pym, Walter Ruthven
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Short description	English colonial bishop
Date of birth	22 June 1856
Place of birth
Date of death	2 March 1908
Place of death