John Bickersteth

John Bickersteth

John Monier Bickersteth KCVO [Debrett's People of Today: Ed Ellis,P (1992, London, Debtrett's) p 1621 ISBN 1870520092)] (1921- ) was Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1975 to 1987, and Clerk of the Closet from 1979-1989. Educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford he was ordained in 1951 and began his career with a Curacy at "St Matthew Moorfield's" Bristol [Who's Who 1992 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0713635142] . After a spell as Vicar of Chatham he ascended to the Episcopate in 1970 as Suffragan Bishop of Warrington, and after five years was further promoted to Bath. From 1979 he was Clerk of the Closet for a decade.

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