Frank Okell

The Rt Rev.Frank Jackson Okell was the inaugural Bishop of Stockport whose 11-month tenure from November 1949,^[1] until October 1950,^[2] was one of the shortest in the Anglican Communion.

Born on 3 February 1887 he was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Oxford.^[3] Ordained in 1914 he was a curate at Bolsterstone before wartime service as a temporary chaplain. Following the Armistice he was a Minor Canon at Sheffield Cathedral then Rector of Bangor Monachorum.^[4] A sideways move to Eccleston, Cheshire led to promotion to be Rural Dean of Malpas and finally, before his elevation to the Episcopate, Archdeacon of Macclesfield. He died on 7 October 1950.

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