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Jul 05, 1904 Died on 26 Dec 1977 (aged 73)
Bishop of Southwark; Provost of Southwark
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About Hugh Ashdown
- Hugh Edward Ashdown (5 July 1904 – 26 December 1977) was an eminent Anglican clergyman in the mid 20th Century.Ashdown was educated at St.
- John's School, Leatherhead and Keble College, Oxford, his first post after ordination was as a curate at St Mary’s Portsea, Portsmouth.
- He was then a Chaplain and Lecturer at Lincoln Theological College and then the Perpetual Curate of St Aidan’s, West Hartlepool and after that Rector of Houghton-le-Spring.
- From 1948 he was the Provost of Southwark Cathedral.
- After his nomination on 15 March, he was consecrated to the Episcopate on 1 May 1957 as the 8th Bishop of Newcastle, a post he held for 16 years until his 2 October 1972 retirement.
- He died on Boxing Day 1977.
