Campbell Richard Hone (13 September 187316 May 1967) was an eminent

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bishop in the second quarter of the 20th century.

Early life

He was born into an ecclesiastical family – his father was Evelyn J. Hone (of the

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), sometime

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– educated at

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and

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and

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in 1898.

Priestly career

After a period as

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at Holy Trinity, Habergham Eaves (1898–1902), he was appointed

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Rodney Eden George Rodney Eden (called Rodney; 9 September 1853 – 7 January 1940) was an Anglican bishop, Bishop of Dover (a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Canterbury) and then Bishop of Wakefield ( diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Wakefield). Backgro ...

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(1902–1905). From 1905 to 1909 he was

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of Leeds Clergy School, becoming additionally an

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to Eden as Bishop of Wakefield (1907–1928); after Leeds, he was

of Pellon (1909–1915) and then of

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(1916–1920), during which time he became also an

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(1918–1920). In 1920 he crossed over to the

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, becoming Rector of

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(1920–1930) and a

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(1926–1930), and serving that diocese as a Proctor in Convocation (1925–1930).

Episcopal career

In 1931, he was appointed to return to Wakefield diocese to be simultaneously: Archdeacon of Pontefract, a

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of Wakefield Cathedral, and the first Bishop suffragan of Pontefract, appointed to assist James Seaton,

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. He was ordained a bishop by William Temple,

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, in

on the Purification of the Blessed Virgin (2 February) 1931; among the bishops co-consecrators were Seaton; Eden (the previous Bishop of Wakefield); George Frodsham, Vicar of Halifax and former Bishop of North Queensland; Lucius Smith, Bishop of Knaresborough; Atherton Rawstorne, Bishop of Whalley; Henry Woollcombe, Bishop of Whitby; and

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, assistant bishop in York and a former

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; and Hugh Bright, Archdeacon of Stafford preached. When Seaton died during the 1938 jubilee celebrations of their diocese's erection in 1888, Temple commissioned Hone to act up as diocesan bishop, and he was soon chosen to succeed Seaton and

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to the diocesan See of Wakefield. He retired in 1945.

Family, honours and pursuits

Hone married Emily, a daughter of a physician named F. P. Weaver, and they had two sons and two daughters. He was made an

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of his ''alma mater'', Wadham, in 1939; wrote a ''Life of Dr John Radcliffe, 1652–1714'' (published 1950); and gained a

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(DD) degree from

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. At his death, he resided at

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. In September 1939, Hone's daughter Margaret Evelyn married J. M. Bruce Lockhart, a schoolmaster and later an intelligence officer, and they had two sons and a daughter: James Bruce Lockhart (born 1941), Alexander (Sandy) Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart (1942–2008), and Sarah Bruce Lockhart (born 1955).Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, ''Burke's Irish Family Records'' (London: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976), p. 598 His great-grand-children include the actor

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hone, Campbell Richard 1873 births Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford Bishops of Pontefract Bishops of Wakefield (diocese) Campbell 1967 deaths 20th-century Church of England bishops