Leonard Fisher
The Rt Rev Leonard Noel Fisher, DD (14 December 1881 – 14 July 1963) was an eminent[1] Anglican Bishop in the second quarter of the twentieth century.[2]
He was educated at Oakham School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge[3] and ordained in 1905. His first post was as a Curate at St Paul’s, Hull[4] after which he was Sub-Warden of St Paul’s Theological College, Grahamstown. Later he was a temporary World War I Chaplain. [5] He served for three months in Plymouth and then spent almost a year in Egypt.[6]After the War he held incumbencies at St Nicholas, Hull and St Matthew Grangetown.[7] In 1921 he was elevated to the Episcopate as Bishop of Lebombo. Translated to Natal[8] in 1928,[9] he served the Diocese until 1951.[10]
His brother, Geoffrey,was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 until 1961.[11] In 1949,Leonard almost became the second archbishop in the family when he was narrowly defeated in the election for Archbishop of Cape Town by Geoffrey Clayton[12]
Notes
- ^ National Archives
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1940-41 Oxford, OUP, 1941
- ^ Fisher. "Fisher, Rt Rev. Leonard Noel". Who's Who. A & C Black.
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- ^ "No. 30097". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 May 1917. p. 5211.
- ^ TNA WO374/24437
- ^ "Rt. Rev. L. N. Fisher Former Bishop Of Natal". The Times. No. 55747. London. 8 July 1963. col E, p. 12.
- ^ Anon. "Database of Manuscripts and Archives". Lambeth Palace Library Catalog. Church of England Record Centre. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
- ^ "New Bishop Of Natal'". The Times. No. 44918. London. 13 June 1928. col G, p. 15.
- ^ "The History of Michaelhouse". Archived from the original on 15 June 2009. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
- ^ "News in Brief". The Times. No. 51804. London. 23 September 1950. col C, p. 6.
- ^ see 'Apartheid and the Archbishop'by Alan Paton,Charles Scribner and Sons,1973,p172
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