Norman Tubbs

Norman Henry Tubbs (5 July 1879 – 2 September 1965)^[1] was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.^[2]

Tubbs was educated at Highgate School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.^[3]^[4] He was ordained in 1903 and was a curate at Whitechapel Parish Church^[5] before going to India as a Church Mission Society missionary, eventually becoming principal of Bishop’s College, Calcutta.^[6] In 1923 he was ordained to the episcopate as the 4th Bishop of Tinnevelly.^[7] He was translated to Rangoon in 1928 and returned to England six years later to be the Archdeacon of Chester and later Dean of Chester.^[8]^[9]

Norman Tubbs was the father of Christopher Norman Tubbs (1926–2010), Vicar of Scalby, North Yorkshire from 1959 to 1995, Rural Dean of Scarborough from 1976 to 1982 and a Canon of York Minster. Christopher was ordained by his father in Chester Cathedral in 1952.^[10]

References

^ "Obituary: Rt Rev. N. H. Tubbs", The Times, 3 September 1965, p. 15.
^ Who was Who 1897-1990, London A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X.
^ Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College: vol V Admissions for 1911 to 1922, Trayes, F.E.A: Cambridge, CUP, 1948.
^ "Tubbs, Norman Henry (TBS898NH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ EoLFHS
^ Project Canterbury
^ "New Bishop Of Tinnevelly", The Times, 11 January 1923, p. 9.
^ "Ecclesiastical News: New Archdeacon of Chester", The Times, 17 April 1934, p. 17.
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1940-41, Oxford OUP, 1941.
^ Yorkshire Post, Obituary of Christopher Tubbs, 23 April 2010

Church of England titles
Preceded by Edward Waller	Bishop of Tinnevelly 1923–1928	Succeeded by Frederick Western
Preceded by Rollestone Fyffe	Bishop of Rangoon 1928–1934	Succeeded by George West
Preceded by Paige Cox	Archdeacon of Chester 1934–1937	Succeeded by Richard Burne
Preceded by Frank Bennett	Dean of Chester 1937–1953	Succeeded by Michael Gibbs

v t e Archdeacons of Chester
Early Medieval	Halmar William Robert (I) Richard Peche Adam de Stafford William de Villars Robert (II) Hugh Thomas de Sancto Nicholao Ralph de Maidstone Silvester de Everdon Richard John Basing Simon de Albo Monasterio Adam de Stanford Jordan of Wimborne/de Wimburn Robert de Radewell
Late Medieval	Richard de Havering John de Ufford Michael Northburgh Pedro Cardinal Gòmez de Barroso William de Navesby Nicholas Slake John de Herlaston John Ganville William de Neuhagh Henry de Halsall David Price Richard Stanley John Burdet George Radclyf Sir Edward Stanley Thomas St Just Henry Ince John Morton James Stanley Christopher Talbot Edmund Chaderton, Archdeacon of Salisbury
Early modern	John Vesey Cuthbert Tunstall William Knight John Birde, Bishop of Chester Robert Perceval (twice) Robert Rogers Cuthbert Bellott George Snell John Carter William Finmore John Allen Edmund Entwisle John Thane Lewis Stephens William Powell Abel Ward George Taylor George Travis Thomas Breithweite
Late modern	Unwin Clarke Isaac Wood Edward Woolnough Richard Greenall William Pollock Edward Johnson John Darby Edward Barber Paige Cox Norman Tubbs Richard Burne Leslie Fisher Leslie Williams Michael Gear Geoffrey Turner Christopher Hewetson Donald Allister Michael Gilbertson

v t e Deans of Chester
Early modern	Thomas Clerk Henry Man William Cliffe Richard Walker John Piers Richard Langworth Robert Dorset Thomas Modesley John Nutter William Barlow Henry Parry Thomas Mallory William Nichols Henry Bridgeman James Arderne Laurence Fogg Walter Offley Thomas Allen Thomas Brooke William Smith George Cotton
Late modern	Hugh Cholmondeley Robert Hodgson Peter Vaughan Edward Copleston Henry Phillpotts George Davys Frederick Anson John Howson John Darby Frank Bennett Norman Tubbs Michael Gibbs George Addleshaw Ingram Cleasby Stephen Smalley Gordon McPhate Tim Stratford