David Saunders-Davies

{{Short description|British Anglican bishop}}

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David Henry Saunders-Davies (1894 – 12 August 1975Crockford's clerical directory Lambeth, Church House, 1976 Obituaries) was the second Bishop of Stockport from 1951 until 1965.New Bishop of Stockport consecrated The Times, Saturday, 3 February 1951; p. 8; Issue 51916; col D

Educated at Liverpool College and Queens' College, Cambridge,{{Who's Who | title=Saunders-Davies, David Henry | id = U159336 | type = was | volume = 1920–2016 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date = 3 April 2016 }} he held Curacies at St John, Birkenhead[http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/chs/birkenhead.html Closed in 1971] and St John, Reading{{Cite web |url=http://www.stjohnandstephen.co.uk/assets/ParishProfile.doc |title=Parish profile |access-date=18 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509131246/http://www.stjohnandstephen.co.uk/assets/ParishProfile.doc |archive-date=9 May 2008 |url-status=dead }} and incumbencies at Hollingworth and Mobberley before wartime service with the RAFVR. When peace returned he was appointed Rural Dean and then Suffragan Bishop of Stockport. He was consecrated a bishop by Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York, on 2 February 1951 at York Minster.{{Church Times | title = Consecrations in two provinces | archive = 1951_02_09_108 | issue = 4592 | date = 9 February 1951 | page = 108 | accessed = 3 April 2016 }} After retiring, he was an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese of Worcester