Robert Sidney Ladds

The Rt Rev. Robert Sidney Ladds is the current Suffragan Bishop of Whitby ["Crockfords" On-line- accessed 21 March 2008] . He was born on 15 November 1941 and educated at Canterbury Christ Church University [ "Who's Who" 2008 (London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 9780713672576] . Ordained in 1981 [ [http://www.burkes-peerage.net/familyhomepage.aspx?FID=0&FN=LADDSROBERT "Burke's Peerage" On-line] ] he began his career with a curacy in Hythe, Kent [Crockfords,(London, Church House 1995) ISBN 0715180886] and was then successively Chaplain to the Bishop of Blackburn, Vicar of Bretherton and finally (before his elevation to the Episcopate) Archdeacon of Lancaster. A keen gardener ["Who's Who" (ibid)] he was a research chemist before becoming a clergyman.

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