Charles Robert Claxton (16 November 1903 – 7 March 1992) was the fourth Suffragan Bishop of Warrington later

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to the See of

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Life

He was the son of missionary Herbert Bailey Claxton and his wife Frances Anne Haslam, and was educated at

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and

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. He was

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in 1928 and began his ordained ministry with

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curacies before becoming

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in 1933. He was

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to the

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before becoming the

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of Warrington and then the diocesan

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. During his long retirement he was an honorary

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in the

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. He died in Cheshire.''Memories of Bishop Charles Robert Claxton''
as edited by his grandson, Rev Simon Christopher Tillotson, 1996

References

1903 births People educated at Monkton Combe School Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Bishops of Warrington Bishops of Blackburn 20th-century Church of England bishops 1992 deaths {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub