Forbes Horan

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Forbes Trevor Horan was the Anglican Bishop of Tewkesbury from 1960 to 1973.

The son of a clergyman, [1] Horan was educated at Sherborne and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. After a short military career in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry he studied for ordination at Westcott House, Cambridge and from 1933 embarked on curacies in Newcastle upon Tyne before wartime service in the RNVR. Livings in Shrewsbury and Huddersfield followed [2] before his elevation to the suffragan bishopric of Tewkesbury [3] in 1960. After 13 years he resigned to begin retirement in Cheltenham. [4] His first wife died in 1983 and five years later at the age of 83 he married again. He died on 11 May 1996

Notes

  1. His first wife, Veronica Bateman-Champlain, was a daughter of the Bishop of Knaresborough Who's Who 1970 London, A & C Black, 1971 ISBN   0-7136-1140-5
  2. Crockfords, (London, Church House 1995) ISBN   0-7151-8088-6
  3. The Times, Wednesday, 3 August 1960; p. 10; Issue 54840; col G Bishop Suffragan of Tewkesbury Category: Official Appointments and Notices
  4. Debrett's People of Today 1992 London, Debrett's 1993 ISBN   1-870520-09-2
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Edward Barry Henderson
Bishop of Tewkesbury
1960 1973
Succeeded by
Robert Deakin


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