Godfrey Lewis Tiarks
Template:Anglican PortalThe Rt Rev Geoffrey Lewis Tiarks was Bishop of Maidstone in the latter part of the 20th century [1]. He was also the Godfather of Peter Phillips [2]
Born into an ecclesiastical family[3] on 8 October 1909 he was educated at Marlborough College and St John's College, Cambridge [4]. Ordained at Southwark Cathedral in 1932 after a Curacy at St Peter’s Walworth[5] he was for many years a Naval Chaplain [6]. Following this he served the Church in Rondebosch, was then Vicar of Lyme Regis and finally (before his elevation to the Episcopate) Archdeacon of the Isle of Wight. He retired to Dorset in 1976[7] and died on 14 January 1987.
Notes
- ^ Crockford's clerical directory 1975/76 Lambeth, Church House ISBN 0108153674
- ^ Royal christening The Times Friday, Dec 23, 1977; pg. 12; Issue 60194; col B
- ^ His father was The Rev Lewis Hermann Tiarks, sometime Rector of Lerwick >"Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0567087468
- ^ “Who was Who 1897-1990” London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X
- ^ Information about church
- ^ Period as RN chaplain
- ^ ”Ancient and Modern-Recollections from the Countryside” Biles,T (Ed): Beaminster, Beaminster Area Team, 1986 ISBN 095119030X
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