Basil Staunton Batty

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(called Staunton; 12 May 187319 March 1952) was an

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suffragan bishop A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations. In the Catholic Church, a suffragan bishop leads a diocese within an ecclesiastical province other than the principal diocese, the metropolitan archdiocese; the diocese led b ...

in the 20th century.'' Who was Who 1897-1990'', London,

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, 1991. Batty was born into an ecclesiastical family on 12 May 1873: his father, William Edmund Batty, was Vicar of St John's,

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. After education at

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and

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, Batty began his ordained ministry as a

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at St Clement's,

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. He was made deacon at

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1896 (27 September) and ordained priest in

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1897 — both times by

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, at

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. Following this he was

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Medmenham Medmenham () is a village and civil parish in south-west Buckinghamshire, England. It is on the River Thames, about southwest of Marlow, Buckinghamshire, Marlow and east of Henley-on-Thames. The parish also includes Danesfield, a housing estate ...

, then Rector of

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. Further incumbencies followed at St Gabriel's, Warwick Square, and Christ Church,

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. He was also Rector of St Anne and St Agnes, Gresham Street. In 1926 he was ordained to the episcopate as the first

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, a post he was to hold until 1947. A noted Europhile, he died on 19 March 1952.''Obituary Bishop B.S. Batty First Bishop Of Fulham'',

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, 20 March 1952; pg. 6; Issue 52265; col D

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* 1878 births People educated at St Paul's School, London Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge Officers of the Order of the British Empire Bishops of Fulham 20th-century Church of England bishops 1952 deaths {{churchofEngland-bishop-stub