Walter Whittingham
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Walter Godfrey Whittingham (5 October 1861 – 17 June 1941) was a Church of England bishop.[http://nrocat.norfolk.gov.uk/Dserve/dserve.exe?dsqServer=128.60.0.31&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=NaviTree.tcl&dsqField=RefNo&dsqItem=MC0186/5 Norfolk Record Office][http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk:8080/Archives/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=RefNo=='MSS/3589-3593/3592'&dsqCmd=Show.tcl National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives][http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=153-mc186&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 National Archives]"Handbook of British Chronology" Fryde, E.B;Greenway D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I Cambridge, CUP, 1996 {{ISBN|978-0-521-56350-5}}“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}
Education
Whittingham was educated at the City of London School and Peterhouse, Cambridge.{{acad|id=WHTN884WG|name=Whittingham, Walkter Godfrey}}
Career
Ordained in 1886,The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory, London, Hamilton & Co 1889 Whittingham began his career with curacies at St Margaret's Church, Leicester and St Thomas the Apostle's, South Wigston. He subsequently held incumbencies at Weedon, Buckinghamshire, Knighton, Leicestershire[http://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/LASSmPagesfromsmvolumeXXIpart2-2.pdf Leicestershire Archaeological Society] and Glaston, Rutland. He was Archdeacon of Oakham from 1918 to 1923 when he was ordained to the episcopate as the third Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, a post he held for 17 years."Ecclesiastical News. Consecration Of Three Bishops", The Times, 2 November 1923, p. 15.The Times, Monday, Aug 19, 1940; pg. 7; Issue 48698; col D Ecclesiastical News Bishop Of St. Edmundsbury to resign He was consecrated bishop at Westminster Abbey on 1 November 1923, by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury;{{Church Times | title = Westminster Abbey. Consecration of Bishops. | archive = 1923_11_02_486 | issue = 3171 | date = 2 November 1923 | page = 486 | accessed = 5 January 2021 }}
Death
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Category:People educated at the City of London School
Category:Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge
Category:Archdeacons of Oakham
Category:20th-century Church of England bishops
Category:Bishops of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
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