Mervyn Armstrong

{{Short description|Anglican clergyman (1906–1984)}}

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Mervyn Armstrong, OBE[http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp77774 NPG details] (1906–1984Obituary- Right Rev Mervyn Armstrong The Times Thursday, 4 October 1984; pg. 16; Issue 61953; col G) was an eminent Anglican clergyman during the middle third of the 20th century.

Educated at Balliol College, Oxford,"Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}} he was ordained in 1938. His first posts were as a Chaplain in the RNVR,Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76. London: Oxford University Press, 1976. {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} after which he was Vicar of Margate. Appointed Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1949 he became Archdeacon of Stow and then Provost of Leicester Cathedral before appointment to the episcopate as Bishop of Jarrow in 1958. In 1964, he resigned that See to become an "advisor on industry" to Donald Coggan, Archbishop of York, and an Assistant Bishop of York;{{Church Times | title = Retrospect of 1964 | archive = 1965_01_01_016 | issue = 5316 | date = 1 January 1965 | page = 16 | accessed = 4 September 2019 }} he retired in 1970.