Guy Sanderson

{{Short description|English Anglican bishop}}

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Wilfrid Guy Sanderson{{Cite web |url=http://www.tdoa.co.uk/Organs/080621stpetrocsouthbrent.htm |title=Torbay & District Organists' Association – St Petroc, South Brent |access-date=13 February 2011 |archive-date=20 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320085205/http://www.tdoa.co.uk/Organs/080621stpetrocsouthbrent.htm |url-status=dead }} (17 August 1905 – 22 July 1988) was an English Anglican Bishop of Plymouth from 1962 to 1972.The Times, 26 June 1962, p. 14, "Ecclesiastical News: Next Bishop of Plymouth"

He was born on 17 August 1905"Who was Who" 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}} and educated at Malvern and Merton College, Oxford.{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900-1964|date=1964|publisher=Basil Blackwell|location=Oxford|page=169}} After ordination he was a curate at Farnborough, HampshireCrockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} and then priest in charge of St Aidan's Aldershot.[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56734 History of Aldershot churches] After this he had incumbencies at Woodham, Surrey, Alton, Hampshire, Silverton, Devon and finally (before his ordination to the episcopate) Barnstaple where he was also archdeacon of the region. He was consecrated a bishop on 30 November 1962 by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Southwark Cathedral.{{Church Times | title = picture caption | archive = 1962_12_07_001 | issue = 5208 | date = 7 December 1962 | page = 1 | accessed = 17 June 2019 }}

He married Cecily Julia Mary Garrat in 1934; they had a son, also called Wilfrid, and two daughters, Gillian and Sally.