Kenneth Evans (bishop of Dorking)

For the Canadian Anglican bishop, see Kenneth Evans (Bishop of Ontario).

Kenneth Dawson Evans (7 November 1915 – 29 June 2007) was the second Suffragan Bishop of Dorking in Guildford, Surrey, England.^[1]

Evans was educated at Dulwich College and Clare College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1938, he began his career with a Curacy at St Mary Northampton^[2] and was then Rector of Ockley before beginning a long ecclesiastical association with the Dorking area.^[3] From 1949, he was initially Vicar, then Archdeacon before ascending to the Episcopate - a post he held from 1968 until 1986. In retirement, he continued to minister as an Assistant Bishop within the Guildford Diocese.

References

↑ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
↑ Church details
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X

Church of England titles
Preceded by Interregnum	Bishop of Dorking 1968–1986	Succeeded by David Peter Wilcox

Bishops of Dorking

Cecil Boutflower Kenneth Evans David Wilcox Ian Brackley

Diocese of Guildford

Guildford Cathedral Willow Grange, Guildford Diocesan House, Guildford

Office holders	The Bishop of Guildford, Andrew Watson The Bishop suffragan of Dorking, vacant AEO: Norman Banks, Bishop suffragan of Richborough The Dean of Guildford, Dianna Gwilliams The Archdeacon of Surrey, Stuart Beake The Archdeacon of Dorking, Paul Bryer

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