Roy Southwell (3 December 191423 July 2011) was the first

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from 1970 to 1980. Born in Sudbury on 3 December 1914, he was educated at Sudbury Grammar School and

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. After curacies in

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and

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he held incumbencies at

Ixworth Ixworth is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, north-east of Bury St Edmunds on the A143 road to Diss and south-east of Thetford. The parish had a population of 2,365 at the 2011 Census. History Ix ...

(1948),

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(1951) and

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(1956) Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) before becoming the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich’s Director of Education, a post he held from 1959 to 1967. He was

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from then until his

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’s appointment. He died on 23 July 2011. He had married Nancy Sharp and had two daughters.

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1914 births People from Sudbury, Suffolk People educated at Sudbury Grammar School Alumni of King's College London Archdeacons of Northolt 2011 deaths {{Canterbury-archdeacon-20C-stub