Richard Cartwright (bishop)

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Richard Fox Cartwright (10 November 1913{{snd}}10 April 2009) was the Anglican Bishop of Plymouth from 1972 to 1982."New Bishop of Plymouth", The Times, 11 May 1972, p. 18.Crockford's Online- accessed 27 December 2008

Cartwright was born Who’s Who 2008 (London, A & C Black, 2008 {{ISBN|978-0-7136-8555-8}} son of George Frederick Cartwright (1874–1938), M.A., vicar of Plumstead from 1928 to 1938, Organising Secretary of the White Cross League from 1910 to 1915;Alumni Cantabrigienses, Volume 2: From 1752 to 1900, Part 1: Abbey-Challis, ed. John Venn, J. A. Venn, Cambridge University Press, 2011, p. 531{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/the-right-rev-richard-cartwright-bishop-of-plymouth-tffpgj7hjw6|title = The Right Rev Richard Cartwright: Bishop of Plymouth}} he was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Pembroke College, Cambridge. After he was deaconed (during Advent 1936 {19 December}){{Church Times | title = Advent ordinations | archive = 1936_12_24_748 | issue = 3857 | date = 24 December 1936 | page = 748 | accessed = 9 October 2019 }} and priested (the following Advent {18 December 1937}) — both times by Richard Parsons, Bishop of Southwark, at Southwark Cathedral,{{Church Times | title = Advent ordinations | archive = 1937_12_23_727 | issue = 3909 | date = 23 December 1937 | page = 727 | accessed = 9 October 2019 }} he was a curate at St Anselm's Kennington Cross[http://www.southwark.anglican.org/parishes/186cp1.htm Church details] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20041228053649/http://www.southwark.anglican.org/parishes/186cp1.htm Archived]) and then priest in charge of Lower Kingswood. He was then Vicar of Surbiton, Redcliffe, BristolThe Times, 4 October 1951, p. 8, "Ecclesiastical News" and Silverton, Devon before being ordained to the episcopate. He was consecrated on by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 29 September 1972 at Westminster Abbey;{{Church Times | title = picture caption | archive = 1972_10_06_003 | issue = 5721 | date = 6 October 1972 | page = 3 | accessed = 9 October 2019 }} in retirement he was an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Truro.The Times, 29 July 1982, p. 12, "Church news Appointments"

He married Rosemary Magdalen (1919-2002), daughter of Lloyd's member Francis Evelyn Bray, of Woking,Girton College Register: 1869-1946, privately printed for Girton College, 1948, p. 537 in 1947, and had a son and three daughters.{{Cite web|url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2009/12-june/gazette/obituary-the-rt-revd-richard-cartwright|title=Obituary: THE RT REVD RICHARD CARTWRIGHT}} A daughter, Jane, married Miranda (then Roger) Cunliffe Turner, son of Sir (Ronald) Mark Cunliffe Turner (1906-1980), chairman of BHS; their son is the musician Frank Turner.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage 2003, vol. 3, p. 4027{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/the-right-rev-richard-cartwright-bishop-of-plymouth-tffpgj7hjw6|title = The Right Rev Richard Cartwright: Bishop of Plymouth}}