Michael Henshall (29 February 1928 – 7 February 2017) was a long serving Suffragan Bishop of Warrington. Henshall was educated at

Manchester Grammar School The Manchester Grammar School (MGS) is a highly Selective school, selective Private_schools_in_the_United_Kingdom, private day school for boys aged 7-18 in Manchester, England, which was founded in 1515 by Hugh Oldham (then Bishop of Exeter). ...

and

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. He was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration in Christianity, consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the religious denomination, denominationa ...

in 1957 and 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 ...

Bridlington Bridlington (previously known as Burlington) is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is on the Holderness part (Flamborough Head to the Humber estuary) of the Yorkshire Coast by the North Sea. The town is ...

before Incumbencies at Micklehurst and

Altrincham Altrincham ( , locally ) is a market town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, south of the River Mersey. It is southwest of Manchester, southwest of Sale, Greater Manchester, Sale and east of Warrington. At the 2021 United Kingdom ce ...

. From there he ascended to the

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of Warrington a post he held for 20 years, retiring in 1996. His son, Nicholas Henshall, was Dean of Chelmsford from 2014 to 2023. He died on 7 February 2017 at the age of 88.BISHOP MICHAEL HENSHALL
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1928 births 2017 deaths People educated at Manchester Grammar School Alumni of St Chad's College, Durham Bishops of Warrington 20th-century Church of England bishops {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub