Douglas Wilson (bishop)
The Right Reverend Douglas John Wilson was an eminent Anglican Bishop in the mid 20th century.[1]
Born into an ecclesiastical family[2] on 22 June 1903 he was educated at Haileybury and Queens' College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1928[3] he was successively a Curate at Dartford, Vicar of Kingswinford and Archdeacon of Central America before his elevation to the Episcopate as Bishop of British Honduras. Translated to Trinidad in 1950 he returned to England as a Canon Residentiary of Wells Cathedral in 1956. He retired to Beaminster in 1973[4] and died on 30 November 1980. Mary Wilson, Bishop Wilson's widow died in 2009.
Notes
- ↑ Obituary-Right Rev D. J. Wilson The Times Tuesday, Dec 02, 1980; pg. 14; Issue 60791; col G
- ↑ His father was Canon J.K Wilson sometime Vicar of Bromley > “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ↑ 50th Anniversary service within National Archives
- ↑ ”Ancient and Modern-Recollections from the Countryside” Biles,T (Ed): Beaminster, Beaminster AreaTeam, 1986 ISBN 0-9511903-0-X
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| Preceded by William James Hughes |
Bishop of British Honduras 1945 – 1950 |
Succeeded by Gerald Henry Brooks |
| Preceded by Fabian Menteath Elliot Jackson |
Bishop of Trinidad 1950 – 1956 |
Succeeded by Frank Noel Chamberlain |
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