Cecil Wilfred Wilson (10 May 1875 – August 1937) was an Anglican bishop, the second

Bishop of Middleton The Bishop of Middleton is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Manchester, in the Province of York, England. The title takes its name after the town of Middleton in Greater Manchester; the See was ...

from 1932 until 1937. Educated at

Norwich School Norwich School (formally King Edward VI Grammar School, Norwich) is a private selective day school in the close of Norwich Cathedral, Norwich. Among the oldest schools in the United Kingdom, it has a traceable history to 1096 as an episcop ...

and

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Corpus Christi College (full name: "The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary", often shortened to "Corpus") is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. From the late 14th c ...

, he was

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of St James's, Holloway, then St Mary's, Swansea (where he was also a

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) and finally

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. During his last year before ascending to the

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he was also the inaugural

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. A prominent

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, he had a "sympathetic understanding of the poor"."The Bishop Of Middleton – Loss to Manchester Diocese". ''The Times'', Thursday, Aug 19, 1937; pg. 14; Issue 47767; col D The bishop was discovered dead at home by his son-in-law on 16 August, after returning the prior Thursday, 12 August, from a lengthy vacation with his family, who had remained behind. Milk delivered that Thursday had been brought into the house but not milk left the next day. He had recently complained of heart problems.

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1875 births 1937 deaths People educated at Norwich School Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 20th-century Church of England bishops Archdeacons of Bradford Provosts and Deans of Bradford Bishops of Middleton {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub