Thomas Herbert Cashmore (27 April 1892 – 16 July 1984) was

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from 1955 to 1967.

Life

Cashmore was born on 27 April 1892, the son of a worker in the railway workshops of the London and North-Western Railway workshops in Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, and educated at Codrington College, Barbados, from 1912 to 1917, taking an external degree from

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in 1918. After ordination he was an SPG

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in Chota Nagpur from 1917 to 1924 and then

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of St James's Calcutta, as well as "Rector" (Principal) of Saint James School Calcutta, which he was told "either to kill or revive". He did the latter. A medal named after him is still presented to the outstanding pupil of the year. Coming to England he held incumbencies at

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from 1933 to 1942 and

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before an eight-year period as ''Canon Missioner'' for the

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. In 1955 he became

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, a post he held until retirement in 1967. He was probably the first Bishop in England for some generations not to have attended university. He died on 16 July 1984

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, Friday, 20 July 1984; p. 12; Issue 61888; col G ''Obituaries'' He was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind medal for public services in India in 1932, and the 1939–45 Defence Medal. He was President of

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of Britain and Ireland in 1950–51. In the 1920s he was Secretary of the

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and was the subject of some controversy when he asked

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to speak there. He married (Kate) Marjorie Hutchinson in 1919, in

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, India. They had five children, and additionally adopted an Anglo-Indian daughter, who pre-deceased them.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cashmore, Thomas Herbert Bishops of Dunwich 20th-century Church of England bishops Alumni of Codrington College Clergy from Coventry 1892 births 1984 deaths