Frederick Darrell Bunt (3 July 1902 – 31 October 1977) was Chaplain of the Fleet and Archdeacon of the Royal Navy from 1956 to 1960. Educated at the

City of London School The City of London School, also known as CLS and City, is a Private schools in the United Kingdom, private day school for Single-sex education, boys in the City of London, England, on the banks of the River Thames next to the Millennium Bridge, ...

and

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, Bunt was

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in 1927.

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1947-48 Oxford,

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, 1941 After curacies St Luke's, Victoria Docks and St Augustine's,

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he became a

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in the

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. Amongst others he served HMS ''President'' (as Chaplain to Leonard Coulshaw, the Chaplain of the Fleet), HMS ''Excellent'', ''HMS Suffolk'', the RN College at Dartmouth and HM Dockyard, Portsmouth before becoming head of the service. An

Honorary Chaplain to the Queen An Honorary Chaplain to the King is a member of the clergy within the United Kingdom who, through long and distinguished service, is appointed to minister to the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, monarch of the United Kingdom. When the reigning mona ...

, he died on 31 October 1977.

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H.M.S. ALBION Commissioning Service

The parish of St. Luke, Victoria DocksSt Augustine’s Wembley Park Church Web Site
1902 births 1977 deaths People educated at the City of London School Alumni of St Chad's College, Durham Officers of the Order of the British Empire Honorary chaplains to the King Chaplains of the Fleet Companions of the Order of the Bath {{ChurchofEngland-archdeacon-stub