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 Ann, 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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before becoming

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in 1933. He was

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to the

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before becoming the Suffragan Bishop 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.

References

4. ‘Memories of Bishop Charles Robert Claxton’ as edited by his grandson, Rev Simon Christopher Tillotson, 1996 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lbpYKwnckPmIF1tRlx_TtKMkQ9m501aQ/view?usp=sharing 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