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Basil Guy (bishop)

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Anglican bishop (1910–1975)

Basil Tudor Guy (9 March 1910 – 29 April 1975) was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.

Guy was born on 9 March 1910 and educated at Forest School and Keble College, Oxford. After a curacy at Wanstead, he was Vicar of Bradninch then St Eustachius' Church, Tavistock before his appointment as Archdeacon of Bedford in 1956. A year later he was elevated to Bishop of Bedford in 1957. Five years later he was translated to Gloucester where he stayed until his death from cancer on 29 April 1975.

References

  1. NPG details
  2. Obituary-Bishop Of Gloucester The Times Tuesday, Mar 04, 1975; pg. 16; Issue 59335; col F
  3. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  4. with the additional position of Archdeacon of St Albans
  5. "Deaths in the last year", Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76. London: Oxford University Press, 1976. ISBN 0-19-200008-X
Church of England titles
Preceded byAngus Campbell MacInnes Bishop of Bedford
1957 – 1962
Succeeded byAlbert John Trillo
Preceded byWilfred Marcus Askwith Bishop of Gloucester
1962 – 1975
Succeeded byJohn Yates
Archdeacons of Bedford
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Late Medieval
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Late modern
Bishops of Bedford
Bishops of Gloucester and of Gloucester and Bristol
Gloucester (1541)
Gloucester and Bristol
Gloucester (1897)


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