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Joseph Wellington Hunkin (25 September 1887 – 28 October 1950) was the eighth
Joseph Wellington Hunkin (25 September 1887 – 28 October 1950) was the eighth Bishop of Truro
The bishop of Truro is the ordinary (diocesan bishop) of the Church of England
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from 1935 to 1950.
He was born on 25 September 1887 at Truro
Truro (; ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parish in Cornwall, England; it is the southernmost city in the United Kingdom, just under west-south-west of Charing Cross in London. It is Cornwall's county town, s ...
and educated at Truro College
Truro and Penwith College is a further education college in Cornwall, England.
History
Truro College was founded in 1993 in Gloweth near Threemilestone, Truro, Cornwall, to replace the Truro Sixth Form College. Penwith College was founded in ...
,Wood, Joanna (2005), ''High on the Hill'', pp. 184–185. Blue Hill Publishing, . the Leys School
The Leys School is a co-educational private school in Cambridge, England. It is a boarding and day school for about 565 pupils between the ages of eleven and eighteen. The head is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
...
and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
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. Made deacon on St Matthew's Day 1913 (21 September) and ordained
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priest at Michaelmas
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1914 (27 September) — both times by Archibald Robertson, Bishop of Exeter
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From the first bishop until the sixteent ...
, at Exeter Cathedral
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, he began his career with a curacy
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at St Andrew's, Plymouth. He was then a chaplain
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in the British Armed Forces
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during World War I
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and after that Dean of Chapel at Caius (his undergraduate college). From 1927 until his ascension to the episcopate
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he was Archdeacon of Coventry
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History
The post was historically within the Diocese of Lichfield (formerl ...
and an Honorary Chaplain to the King
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. He was consecrated a bishop by Cosmo Lang
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, Archbishop of Canterbury
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, at St Paul's Cathedral
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on Whit Tuesday
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1935 (11 June). In 1938 he volunteered to be chaplain to the British Legion Volunteer Police Force.
He died on 28 October 1950. He was a strong Evangelical and noted for his pastoral work. He was the chair of a commission to produce a new English translation of the Bible from 1948 to 1950. Hunkin used as his pastoral staff a shepherd's crook of iron with a wooden shaft bound with a silver band inscribed "Un para, un bugel" ( Cornish for "One flock, one shepherd") and enlisted in the Home Guard
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during the Second World War
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. A keen gardener, he was commemorated by a garden in the cathedral close and a shrub donated to every parish. He had become a Doctor of Divinity
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(DD).
Writings
Among his published works, * ''Is it Reasonable to Believe?'' (1935) London: Hodder & Stoughton. * ''From a Cornish Bishop's Garden'' (2001), Penzance: Alison Hodge – a collection of newspaper articles from ''The Guardian
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'', (an Anglican weekly newspaper) edited and introduced by Douglas Pett.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hunkin, Joseph Wellington 1887 births 1950 deaths 20th-century Church of England bishops Archdeacons of Coventry Bishops of Truro Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Honorary chaplains to the King Officers of the Order of the British Empire People educated at The Leys School Recipients of the Military Cross Royal Army Chaplains' Department officers World War I chaplains Clergy from Cornwall