Robert Milton Hay

Philip Herbert Eliot was the third Bishop of Buckingham from 1944 [ The Times, Wednesday, Jun 07, 1944; pg. 7; Issue 49876; col B "Ecclesiastical News New Suffragan Bishop Of Buckingham"] to 1960. Born on 30 August 1884 and educated at Merchant Taylor's School and St John’s College, Oxford he was ordained in 1909, the year he married Esmay Foster [ The Times, Friday, Sep 10, 1909; pg. 1; Issue 39061; col A "Marriages"] . After a curacy at St Pancras and spells as the incumbent at Summerstown, Buckinghamshire and Taplow in the same county he was appointed Rural Dean of Oxford before his ascension to the Episcopate. His first wife died in 1959 and the following year he married Agnes Shaw, the eldest daughter of the first Bishop of Buckingham. That same year he retired, although he then served another ten years as an Assistant Bishop within the same diocese [“Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X] . He died on 23 October 1973.

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