Russell Berridge White

Russell Berridge White was the inaugural Bishop of Tonbridge from 1959 [The Times Monday, Oct 27, 1958; pg. 8; Issue 54292; col A "First Bishop Suffragan Of Tonbridge" appointed] to 1968. Born on 13 December 1896 he was educated at the City of Oxford School and (after wartime service with the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) St Edmund Hall, Oxford [“Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X] . After this he studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford followed by a curacy at "St Philemon, Toxteth" [ [http://www.toxteth.net/places/liverpool/churches/st%20philemon.htm Picture of church] ] . Between 1929 and 1933 he was Vicar of "St Chrysostom", Everton and then St Mary Woolnoth in the City of London. From 1945 until his retirement he served as firstly Rural Dean and then Suffragan Bishop of Bishop of Tonbridge [Crockford's clerical directory1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN 018153674] . Described by The Times [The Times, Monday, Nov 19, 1979; pg. VIII; Issue 60478; col H "Rt Rev R. B. White Obituary"] as “one of the most trusted of his generation of evangelical leaders” he died on 12 December 1979, the day before his 83rd birthday.

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