Ken Leslie

Ernest Kenneth "Ken" Leslie OBE (14 May 1911 – 6 January 2010[1]) was an Australian Anglican bishop. He was the Anglican Bishop of Bathurst from 1959 to 1981.[2]

Leslie was educated at Trinity Grammar School, Kew [3] and the University of Melbourne. He was ordained in 1935 was a curate at Holy Trinity, Coburg in Melbourne before becoming priest in charge at Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. He then held incumbencies in Darwin and Alice Springs. He was Vice-Warden of St John’s College, Morpeth from 1947 to 1952 and then Chaplain of Geelong Grammar School until his ordination to the episcopate in 1959. Known as “The Bishop who walked", he retired in 1981.

Notes

  1. The Age
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  3. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Arnold Lomas Wylde
Anglican Bishop of Bathurst
1959–1981
Succeeded by
Howell Arthur John Witt