Hugh Blackburne

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Hugh Charles Blackburne was the Bishop of Thetford from 1977 until 1981.

Blackburne was born into an ecclesiastical familyHis father was a former Dean of Bristol > The Times, 4 January 1944, p7.C on 4 June 1912 and educated at Marlborough"Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}} and Clare College, Cambridge before beginning his ordained ministry as a curate in Almondbury.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} He was then a chaplain in the Forces and then held incumbencies at Milton, Hampshire, Harrow, the Hillsborough parishes[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=109-mss_3&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 Details within The National Archives] and Ranworth before being ordained to the episcopate. He died on 15 October 1995.{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/stream/Independent1995IrelandEnglish/Oct%2018%201995%2C%20Independent%2C%20%232808%2C%20Ireland%20%28en%29#page/n15/mode/2up/search/blackburne|title=The Right Rev. Hugh Blackburne|work=The Independent|date= 18 October 1995|page=16}}