Richard Cartwright (bishop)

Richard Fox Cartwright (10 November 1913 – 10 April 2009) was the Anglican Bishop of Plymouth from 1972 to 1982.[1][2]

Cartwright was born [3] son of George Frederick Cartwright (1874–1938), M.A., vicar of Plumstead from 1928 to 1938, Organising Secretary of the White Cross League from 1910 to 1915;[4][5] he was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Pembroke College, Cambridge. After he was deaconed (during Advent 1936 {19 December})[6] and priested (the following Advent {18 December 1937}) — both times by Richard Parsons, Bishop of Southwark, at Southwark Cathedral,[7] he was a curate at St Anselm's Kennington Cross[8] and then priest in charge of Lower Kingswood. He was then Vicar of Surbiton, Redcliffe, Bristol[9] and Silverton, Devon before being ordained to the episcopate. He was consecrated on by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 29 September 1972 at Westminster Abbey;[10] in retirement he was an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Truro.[11]

He married Rosemary Magdalen (1919-2002), daughter of Lloyd's member Francis Evelyn Bray, of Woking,[12] in 1947, and had a son and three daughters.[13] A daughter, Jane, married Miranda (then Roger) Cunliffe Turner, son of Sir (Ronald) Mark Cunliffe Turner (1906-1980), chairman of BHS; their son is the musician Frank Turner.[14][15]

Notes
  1. "New Bishop of Plymouth", The Times, 11 May 1972, p. 18.
  2. Crockford's Online- accessed 27 December 2008
  3. Who’s Who 2008 (London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
  4. Alumni Cantabrigienses, Volume 2: From 1752 to 1900, Part 1: Abbey-Challis, ed. John Venn, J. A. Venn, Cambridge University Press, 2011, p. 531
  5. "The Right Rev Richard Cartwright: Bishop of Plymouth".
  6. "Advent ordinations". Church Times. No. 3857. 24 December 1936. p. 748. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 9 October 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
  7. "Advent ordinations". Church Times. No. 3909. 23 December 1937. p. 727. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 9 October 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
  8. Church details (Archived)
  9. The Times, 4 October 1951, p. 8, "Ecclesiastical News"
  10. "picture caption". Church Times. No. 5721. 6 October 1972. p. 3. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 9 October 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
  11. The Times, 29 July 1982, p. 12, "Church news Appointments"
  12. Girton College Register: 1869-1946, privately printed for Girton College, 1948, p. 537
  13. "Obituary: THE RT REVD RICHARD CARTWRIGHT".
  14. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage 2003, vol. 3, p. 4027
  15. "The Right Rev Richard Cartwright: Bishop of Plymouth".


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