- Douglas Noel Sargent
Douglas Noel Sargent(1907-1979 [ [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp76010 National Portrait Gallery Details] ] )was the 3rd
Bishop of Selby . He was educated atWatford Grammar School for Boys andKing’s College, Cambridge [“Who was Who” 1897-1990 London,A & C Black , 1991 ISBN 071363457X] andordained in 1932. His first post was asCurate atWillian ,Hertfordshire [Crockford's clerical directory 1975:Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN 0108153674] . Subsequently he embarked on a long spell as aMissionary [”The making of a missionary” Sargent,D.N: LondonHodder & Stoughton 1960] in Sichuan Province [”Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions” Angerson, G.H., New York,Macmillan Reference USA, 1998 ISBN 0028646045] at "West China Union University" [ [http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/specproj/dsoninchina/wcuu.htm Details of the University] ] . From 1961 until 1962 he wasPrincipal of theChurch Mission Society [ [http://www.bdcconline.net/bdcc_stories/china/sichuan/sargent_dn.html “Deep impression on the trainees”] ] when he was elevated to theEpiscopate [The Times , Wednesday, Mar 14, 1962; pg. 14; Issue 55339; col E "Ecclesiastical News Bishop Suffragan Of Selby"] , a post he held until his retirement toYork ..Notes
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