Horace Tonks

Horace Norman Vincent Tonks (29 January 1891 – 25 November 1959) was an Anglican colonial bishop[1] in the Windward Islands from 1936[2] until 1949.

He was born in Walsall, England,[3] on 29 January 1891 to Henry and Emily Tonks[4] and educated at the town's Queen Mary's Grammar School and Lichfield Theological College.[5] Ordained in 1918[6] after a curacy in Fenton, he was priest in charge of Holy Cross, Airedale,[7] then from 1926 to 1935 the vicar of Saint Sampson with Holy Trinity in York.[8] After that he was Archdeacon of Grenada for a brief period in 1935 and 1936 before his appointment to the episcopate in the Windward Islands. On his return to England, he was Rector of Leybourne in Kent from 1949 to 1956. He died on 25 November 1959.[9]

Family

In 1921, he married Alice Underwood. They had three sons and two daughters.[4]

References
  1. National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
  2. Ecclesiastical News Bishop Of The Windward Islands The Times Monday, Jul 06, 1936; pg. 9; Issue 47419; col B
  3. Pitts Theology Library
  4. "Tonks, Horace Norman Vincent. Papers". pitts.emory.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
  5. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  6. Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
  7. Photo of church
  8. Saint Silas
  9. The Times, Friday, Nov 27, 1959; pg. 17; Issue 54629; col C Obituary Rt. Rev. H. N. V. Tonks


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