Dennis Hawker

Denis Gascoyne Hawker was the eighth Bishop of Grantham.[1]

Born on 8 February 1921 and educated at Addey and Stanhope School and Queens' College, Cambridge,[2] after World War II service with the Royal Marines he was ordained in 1951. His first post was as a curate at St Mary and St Eanswythe, Folkestone,[3] after which he was Vicar of St Mark, South Norwood.[4] From 1960 he was St Hugh’s Missioner for the Diocese of Lincoln and later became Vicar of St Mary and St James, Great Grimsby before elevation to the Episcopate. He died on 31 January 2003.

Notes

  1. Daily Telegraph Obituary
  2. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  3. Details of church
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Ross Sydney Hook
Bishop of Grantham
1972 1987
Succeeded by
Bill Ind