James Morrell

Memorial within Chichester Cathedral

James Herbert Lloyd Morrell (or Lloyd Morrell) (1907–1996) was the seventh Bishop of Lewes.[1][2]

Morrell was born on 12 August 1907[3] and educated at Dulwich College and King's College London.[4] He began his career with curacies at St Alphage, Hendon and St Michael and All Angels, Brighton after which he was the Bishop of Chichester's Chaplain and then a Lecturer for The Church of England Moral Welfare Council. From here he went to be Vicar of Roffey [5] and then Archdeacon of Lewes before elevation to the Episcopate in 1959,[6] serving eventually for eighteen years.[7] He died on 28 March 1996.[8]

Notes

  1. Material at The National Archives
  2. His episcopal signature was "+Lloyd Lewen", Blagdon-Gamlen, P. E. (1973) The Church Travellers Directory. London: Church Literature Association; p. ii (foreword)
  3. Birthdate
  4. Who’s Who. London, A & C Black,1992 ISBN 0-7136-3514-2
  5. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  6. The Times, Friday, Aug 07, 1959; pg. 10; Issue 54533; col C Bishop Suffragan Of Lewes
  7. Crockford's Clerical Directory (ibid)
  8. Death date
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Geoffrey Hodgson Warde
Bishop of Lewes
1959 1977
Succeeded by
Peter John Ball