Stanley Betts
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Stanley Woodley Betts CBE (23 March 1912 – 7 June 2003) was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.The Times, 20 August 1956, p. 8, "See of Maidstone Revived Bishop Suffragan to the Forces"
Life
Betts was educated at Perse SchoolWho's Who (UK), 1971 A & C Black p736 {{ISBN|0-7136-1140-5}} and Jesus College, Cambridge.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1433087/The-Right-Reverend-Stanley-Betts.html Telegraph on-line] He was ordained in 1936 and was successively a wartime chaplain with the RAF, a chaplain at Clare College, Cambridge, the Vicar of Holy Trinity, Cambridge[http://www.htcambridge.org.uk/ Church website] and then, in 1956, the Bishop of MaidstoneCrockford's clerical directory (Lambeth Palace, Church House) 1982 {{ISBN|0-19-200010-1}} with the additional title of Archbishop of Canterbury's Episcopal Representative with the three Armed Forces. (Before his appointment, the last Bishop of Maidstone had been Leslie Owen, who was translated to Lincoln in 1946.) From 1966 he was Dean of Rochester, a post he held for 11 years.
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Category:People educated at The Perse School
Category:Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge
Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II
Category:World War II chaplains
Category:Bishops to the Forces
Category:20th-century Church of England bishops