Edward David Cartwright (15 July 1920 – 24 April 1997) was the tenth Suffragan Bishop of Southampton. Cartwright was educated at

Lincoln Grammar School Lincoln Grammar School or Lincoln Free School was formed as the result of the amalgamation of the Lincoln City Free School and the Lincoln Chapter Grammar School. The amalgamation occurred in January 1584, but the two schools may have been effe ...

and

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in 1944, he began his career with a

curacy A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' () of souls of a parish. In this sense, ''curate'' means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy who are ass ...

Boston, Lincolnshire Boston is a market town and inland port in the borough of the same name in the county of Lincolnshire, England. It lies to the south-east of Lincoln, east of Nottingham and north-east of Peterborough. The town had a population of 45,339 at ...

and was then

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of St Leonard's,

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. After that he held further incumbencies at

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, Bishopston and Sparsholt and was then Archdeacon of Winchester before appointment to the

episcopate A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of dioceses. The role ...

, a post he held from 1984

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Wednesday, May 09, 1984; pg. 16; Issue 61826; col G ''Church news New bishop appointed'' until 1989.

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1920 births Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge Archdeacons of Winchester (ancient) Bishops of Southampton 20th-century Church of England bishops 1997 deaths People educated at Lincoln Grammar School {{churchofEngland-bishop-stub