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) from 1960 to 1970. He was made a deacon by

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, on St Matthew's Day (21 September) 1924, at St Andrew's, Croydon; ordained a priest by

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, in

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1925 (19 December), at

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; and consecrated a bishop by

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, on Lady Day (25 March) 1960, at

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. Eley married Doreen Bourne, a scion of the Judkin-Fitzgerald baronets; they had no children.

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1904 births 1990 deaths 20th-century Anglican bishops of Gibraltar {{Gibraltar-bio-stub