William Gilpin (bishop)


William Percy Gilpin was a long serving Bishop of Kingston.
Gilpin was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Keble College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1925 was a curate in Solihull following which he was chaplain of Chichester Theological College; Vicar of Manaccan, then Penzance; Director of Religious Education for the Diocese of Gloucester and finally the Archdeacon of Southwark. He retired to Ludlow in 1970.