Bernard Heywood

Bernard Oliver Francis Heywood (1 March 1871 – March 1960) was a bishop in the Church of England.^[1]^[2]

Family and education

Heywood was born into a distinguished ecclesiastical family, the sixth son of Henry Robinson Heywood, priest and honorary canon of Manchester Cathedral.^[3] Bernard married Marion Maude and they had five sons and two daughters. He was educated at Sunningdale School, then Harrow School and Welldon. He went to Trinity College, Cambridge and graduated in 1892.^[4]

He was ordained priest in the Church of England in 1895. He was Vicar of St Paul's Church, Bury from 1897 to 1906; Vicar of St Peter's Church, Swinton from 1906 to 1916; and Vicar of Leeds Parish Church from 1916 to 1926. Bishop of Southwell from 1926 to 1928 (before resigning owing to a period of ill health), he was subsequently an Assistant Bishop of York from 1929 to 1931 (during which time he had oversight of the East Riding) and then suffragan Bishop of Hull (effectively the same role)^[5] and Archdeacon of the East Riding from 1931^[6] to 1934. From 1934, he was Bishop of Ely,^[7] retiring (again in ill health) in 1940/41.^[8] From October 1942 to 1951 he was Assistant Bishop of St Albans.^[9]

^ "Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
^ The Times, 15 March 1960
^ "Genealogical details". Archived from the original on 2012-02-09. Retrieved 2008-07-28.
^ "Heywood, Bernard Oliver Francis (HWT889BO)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ "New Bishop of Hull". Church Times. No. 3575. 31 July 1931. p. 135. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 13 March 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
^ "Varieties of Episcopal experience". Church Times. No. 4152. 21 August 1942. p. 458. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 13 March 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
^ Article in Time magazine
^ "The Bishop of Ely resigning". Church Times. No. 4064. 13 December 1940. p. 794. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 13 March 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
^ "St. Albans — An Assistant-Bishop". Church Times. No. 4152. 21 August 1942. p. 460. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 13 March 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Edwyn Hoskyns	Bishop of Southwell 1926–1928	Succeeded by Henry Mosley
Preceded by Francis Gurdon	Bishop of Hull 1931–1934	Succeeded by Henry Vodden
Preceded by Leonard White-Thomson	Bishop of Ely 1934–1940	Succeeded by Edward Wynn

v t e Bishops of Southwell
Bishops of Southwell	George Ridding Sir Edwyn Hoskyns Bt Bernard Heywood Henry Mosley Russell Barry Gordon Savage Denis Wakeling Michael Whinney Patrick Harris George Cassidy (became Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham)
Bishops of Southwell and Nottingham	George Cassidy (previously Bishop of Southwell) Paul Butler Tony Porter (Acting) Richard Inwood (Acting) Tony Porter (Acting) Paul Williams

v t e Bishops of Ely
High Medieval	Hervey le Breton Nigel Geoffrey Ridel William de Longchamp Eustace Robert of York John of Fountains Geoffrey de Burgh Hugh of Northwold William of Kilkenny Hugh de Balsham John Kirkby William of Louth John Salmon/John Langton Ralph Walpole
Late Medieval	Robert Orford John Ketton John Hotham Simon Montacute Thomas de Lisle Simon Langham John Barnet Thomas Arundel John Fordham Philip Morgan Lewis of Luxembourg Thomas Bourchier William Grey John Morton John Alcock
Early modern	Richard Redman James Stanley Nicholas West Thomas Goodrich Thomas Thirlby Richard Cox Martin Heton Lancelot Andrewes Nicholas Felton John Buckeridge Francis White Matthew Wren Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth) Matthew Wren Benjamin Lany Peter Gunning Francis Turner Simon Patrick John Moore William Fleetwood Thomas Green Robert Butts Thomas Gooch Matthias Mawson Edmund Keene James Yorke
Late modern	Thomas Dampier Bowyer Sparke Joseph Allen Thomas Turton Harold Browne James Woodford Lord Alwyne Compton Frederic Chase Leonard White-Thomson Bernard Heywood Edward Wynn Noel Hudson Edward Roberts Peter Walker Stephen Sykes Anthony Russell Stephen Conway