Alfred Rawlinson (bishop)


Alfred Edward John Rawlinson was an eminent British scholar of divinity and an Anglican bishop. He was the second Bishop of Derby from 1936 until his retirement in 1959.

Biography

Born at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire and educated at Dulwich College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he was ordained a deacon in 1909 and a priest in 1910. He married Mildred, oldest daughter of P. A. Ellis, and they had one son.
His academic career began as a tutor at Keble College, Oxford. Further academic posts at Christ Church, Oxford and Corpus followed: he was a Student and Tutor at Christ Church from 1914 to 1929, and assistant chaplain and college lecturer in divinity at Corpus Christi from 1920 to 1929. He was also a university lecturer in divinity studies from 1927 to 1929.
Meanwhile, his priestly ministry included examining chaplain to John Kempthorne, Bishop of Lichfield and a brief spell as priest-in-charge of St John the Evangelist, Wilton Road. He was appointed a Chaplain to the King and departed Oxford to become Archdeacon of Auckland, a Canon Residentiary of Durham Cathedral, and examining chaplain to Hensley Henson, Bishop of Durham, before his election to the See of Derby. He was consecrated a bishop by Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, on St Matthias' day 1936 at St Paul's Cathedral. He retired to Golders Green and died at a London hospital. His ashes were interred in Derby Cathedral at a memorial service on 17 September 1960.

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