Billy Fitchett

{{Short description|New Zealand bishop (1872–1952)}}

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William Alfred Robertson Fitchett (6 February 1872 – 15 August 1952) was an Anglican bishop in New Zealand. He was the Bishop of Dunedin from 1934 to 1952.{{Cite web |url=http://www.stpauls.net.nz/OurHistory |title="Our History", St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin website. |access-date=20 September 2013 |archive-date=21 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921060219/http://www.stpauls.net.nz/OurHistory |url-status=dead }}Who was Who 1897–2007, London, A & C Black, 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}.

Fitchett was born in Christchurch and his father was the Very Reverend Alfred Robertson Fitchett CMG of Dunedin. He was educated at Otago Boys' High School and Selwyn College, Cambridge.{{acad|id=FTCT895WA|name=Fitchett, William Alfred Robertson}}[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OW19021112.2.106&l=mi&e=-------10--1----0-all Otago Witness] Ordained in 1901,The Clergy List, London, Kelly’s 1913. he was curate then priest in charge of St Thomas' Wellington before being vicar of Dunstan and Roslyn. In 1915 he became the Archdeacon of Dunedin, a post he held for 19 years before being appointed its bishop."New Bishop of Dunedin", The Times, 22 February 1934, p. 13.

Fitchett was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19350506.2.12 | title=Official jubilee medals | date=6 May 1935 | work= Evening Post | accessdate=2 July 2013 | page=4 }}