Eric Knell

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{{Portal|Christianity}}Eric Henry Knell (1 April 1903Who was Who 1897-2007: London, A & C Black, 2008, {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}} – January 1987){{Cite web |url=http://www.purley.eu/H442.htm |title=Area Bishops |access-date=2012-06-09 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130213100414/http://www.purley.eu/H442.htm |archive-date=2013-02-13 |url-status=dead }} was the Bishop of Reading from 1954 until 1972.The Times, Thursday, Jan 13, 1972; pg. 14; Issue 58374; col C Resignation of the Bishop of Reading

Knell was educated at Trinity College, Oxford and ordained in 1929.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} Beginning his ministry with a curacy at St Barnabas, Southfields{{Cite web |url=http://www.stbarnabas-online.org/HomeFrames.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828023359/http://www.stbarnabas-online.org/HomeFrames.htm |archive-date=2008-08-28 |url-status=dead }} he was successively: Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Lincoln; Priest in charge of the Trinity College, Oxford, Mission in Stratford; Vicar of Emmanuel, Forest Gate, then Christ Church, Reading;{{cite web|url=http://www.rdgchristchurch.org/|title=Church Web Site 1|work=rdgchristchurch.org}} and finally, before his appointment to the episcopate, Archdeacon of Berkshire.{{cite web |url=http://www.purley.eu/H3P/YB.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-09-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720171225/http://www.purley.eu/H3P/YB.pdf |archivedate=2011-07-20 }} In 1972 he retired to Lingfield, Surrey and continued to serve the Church as an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese of Oxford.