Eric Wall

Memorial to Eric St Quintin Wall in Ely Cathedral

The Rt Rev Eric St Quintin Wall (19 April 1915 – 11 April 2011[1]) was the second Bishop of Huntingdon from 1972[2] to 1980 and from then on an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese of Gloucester. The son of a clergyman,[3] he was born on 19 April 1915 and educated at Clifton College and Brasenose College, Oxford. Ordained in 1939 he began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Boston, Lincolnshire [4] after which he was a World War II chaplain in the RAFVR. When peace returned he held incumbencies at Malmesbury, Cricklade [5] and then finally (before his elevation to the Episcopate) at Westbury Park, Bristol.

Notes

  1. http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=111376
  2. The Times, Thursday, 23 Mar 1972; pg. 19; Issue 58434; col E D-Day chaplains are made bishops suffragan
  3. The Rev. Sydney Herbert Wall Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0
  5. List of incumbents
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Robert Arnold Schürhoff Martineau
Bishop of Huntingdon
1972–1980
Succeeded by
William Gordon Roe