Harry Woollcombe

Henry St John Stirling Woollcombe[1] (27 December 1869 – 1 December 1941) was the inaugural Bishop of Whitby from 1923[2] until 1939; and also of Selby. Born into a clerical family,[3] he was educated at Clifton College and Keble College, Oxford before being ordained in 1895. After a curacy in Stepney he became head of the Oxford House University Settlement in nearby Bethnal Green. A brief spell as chaplain to Cosmo Gordon Lang (Archbishop of York) was followed by a decade as the parish priest of Armley. Promotion to be the Sub Dean of Diocese of Coventry in 1922 was swiftly followed by elevation to the episcopate.[4] After 16 years at Whitby he made a sideways move to become Bishop of Selby- a post he held only for 18 months.[5] His Times obituary noted his capacity for "getting on with and getting the best out of all conditions of men.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Genealogical Progency
  2. ↑ ‘WOOLLCOMBE, Rt Rev. Henry St John Stirling’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007 , accessed 8 July 2012
  3. ↑ His nephew, Kenneth, became Bishop of Oxford.
  4. ↑ The Times, Saturday, 4 August 1923; p. 9; Issue 43411; col A "Canon Woollcombe, Sub Dean of St Michael’s Cathedral Church, Coventry to be inaugural Bishop of Whitby"
  5. ↑ The Times, Friday, 21 June 1940; p. 9; Issue 48648; col D "Ecclesiastical News The Bishop Of Selby Resigning."
  6. ↑ The Times, Tuesday, 2 December 1941; p. 7; Issue 49098; col E "Dr H Woollcombe, late Bishop of Selby"
Church of England titles
New title Bishop of Whitby
1923–1939		 Succeeded by
Harold Hubbard
New title Bishop of Selby
1939–1940		 Succeeded by
Carey Knyvett
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