Richard Third
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{{Infobox Christian leader
| name = Richard Third
| title = Bishop of Dover
| diocese = Diocese of Canterbury
| term = 1980–1992
| predecessor = Tony Tremlett
| successor = Richard Llewellin
| other_post = Bishop of Maidstone (1976–1980)
| ordination = 1952 (deacon); 1953 (priest)
| consecration = 1976
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|9|27|df=y}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|5|5|1927|9|27|df=y}}
| death_place = Edinburgh, Scotland, {{nowrap|United Kingdom}}
| religion = Anglican
| parents = Henry McPhail & Marjorie Third
| spouse = Helen Illingworth (m. 1966)
| children = 2 daughters
| occupation =
| profession =
| alma_mater = Emmanuel College, Cambridge
}}
Richard Henry McPhail Third (29 September 1927{{snd}}5 May 2016) was an Anglican bishop in the Church of England.Debrett’s People of Today: Ed Ellis, P (1992, London, Debtrett's) {{ISBN|1-870520-09-2}})
Education
Third was educated at Reigate Grammar School, and then Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he gained a Master of Arts degree,{{Who's Who | title=Third, Richard Henry McPhail | id = U37328 | type = was | volume = 1920–2016 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date = 6 January 2017 }} before studying for ordination at Lincoln Theological College.
Ecclesiastical career
He was made a deacon on Trinity Sunday 1952 (8 June),{{Church Times | title = Trinity Ordinations | archive = 1952_06_13_438 | issue = 4662 | date = 13 June 1952 | page = 438 | accessed = 22 May 2019 }} and ordained a priest the following Trinity Sunday (31 May 1953), both times by Bertram Simpson, Bishop of Southwark, at Southwark Cathedral.{{Church Times | title = Ordinations | archive = 1953_06_05_418 | issue = 4713 | date = 5 June 1953 | page = 418 | accessed = 22 May 2019 }}
He began his ordained ministry as a curate at St Andrew's Mottingham.[http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/bromley/mottingham/st-andrews-1905.htm Church details] He was later Vicar of Sheerness,Crockford's clerical directory London, Church House 1975 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} and All Saints, Orpington then the Rural Dean of Orpington, before his ordination to the episcopate as the Bishop of Maidstone in 1976. He was consecrated a bishop on 30 November 1976, by Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Canterbury Cathedral.{{Church Times | title = Canon is appointed as bishop | archive = 1976_08_27_002 | issue = 5924 | date = 27 August 1976 | pages = 2 | accessed = 18 May 2019 }}
He was translated to be the Bishop of Dover in 1980 (after July){{Church Times | title = Primate's load to be lightened | archive = | issue = 6121 | date = 6 June 1980 | pages = [http://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/view/pagview/ChTm_1980_06_06_001 1] & [http://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/view/pagview/ChTm_1980_06_06_020 20] | accessed = 6 January 2017 }} to assist Robert Runcie, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, and was the first Bishop of Dover to hold delegated authority to act as the effective diocesan bishop of the diocese, in the absence of the archbishop.The Times, 3 June 1980; pg. 4; Issue 60641; col B, Church change to ease work of archbishop
Retirement
He retired in 1992 to the west of England, but had moved to Edinburgh by the time of his death, and he died there on 5 May 2016.{{Church Times | title = Obituary: Richard Henry McPhail Third | archive = 2016_06_03_024 | issue = 7994 | date = 3 June 2016 | pages = 24 | accessed = 6 January 2017 }}
References
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{{s-ttl|title=Bishop of Maidstone|years=1976–1980}}
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{{s-ttl|title=Bishop of Dover|years=1980–1992}}
{{s-aft|after=Richard Llewellin}}
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Category:People educated at Reigate Grammar School
Category:Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Category:Bishops of Dover, Kent
Category:Alumni of Lincoln Theological College
Category:20th-century Church of England bishops
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