Ambrose Reeves

Richard Ambrose Reeves was an Anglican priest[1] and opponent of Apartheid[2] in the 20th century.

He was born on 6 December 1899,[3] educated at Great Yarmouth Grammar School[4] and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and ordained, after a period of study at the College of the Resurrection at Mirfield, in 1927.[5] After a curacy at St Albans, Golders Green[6] he held incumbencies at St Margaret, Leven,[7] St James Haydock and St Nicholas, Liverpool. In 1949 he was ordained to the episcopate as the 3rd Bishop of Johannesburg[8] a post he held until 1961 when he was deported. He then became an assistant Bbshop, firstly in the Diocese of London and then Chichester. A Sub-Prelate of the Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem, he died on 23 December 1980.[9]

Church of England titles
Preceded by
Geoffrey Hare Clayton
Bishop of Johannesburg
1949 1961
Succeeded by
Leslie Edward Stradling

Notes

  1. National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
  2. Time Magazine
  3. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  4. Boon, Michael. "Great Yarmouth's School". The Owl Service, 2010, p.232. ISBN 978-0-9567512-0-1.
  5. Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
  6. Photos of church
  7. ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
  8. "New Bishop Of Johannesburg Canon R. A. Reeves appointed", The Times, 25 February 25 1949, p. 7.
  9. The Times, Saturday, Dec 27, 1980; pg. 12; Issue 60811; col E Obituary The Right Rev Ambrose Reeves