Joseph Hunkin (bishop)

Joseph Hunkin
Bishop of Truro
Diocese Diocese of Truro
In office 1935–1950
Predecessor Walter Frere
Successor Edward Morgan
Orders
Ordination 1914 (curate);
Personal details
Born (1887-09-25)25 September 1887
Truro, Cornwall
Died 28 October 1950(1950-10-28) (aged 63)
Nationality British
Denomination Anglican
Alma mater Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Memorial in Truro Cathedral
Arms of Hunkin: Argent, a mascle sable over all a fess of the last[1]

Joseph Wellington Hunkin[2] OBE MC[3] (25 September 1887 – 28 October 1950) was the eighth Bishop of Truro from 1935 to 1950.[4][5]

He was born on 25 September 1887 at Truro and educated at Truro College,[6] the Leys School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1914, he began his career with a curacy at St Andrew’s, Plymouth.[7] He was then a Chaplain in the British Armed Forces during World War I [8] and after that Dean of Chapel at Caius (his undergraduate college). From 1927 until his ascension to the Episcopate he was Archdeacon of Coventry[9] and an Honorary Chaplain to the King. In 1938 he volunteered to be chaplain to the British Legion Volunteer Police Force.[10]

He died on 28 October 1950.[11] He was a strong Evangelical and noted for his pastoral work.[12] He was the chair of a commission to produce a new English translation of the Bible from 1948 to 1950. Hunkin used as his pastoral staff a shepherd's crook of iron with a wooden shaft bound with a silver band inscribed "Un para, un bugel" (Cornish for "One flock, one shepherd") and enlisted in the Home Guard during the Second World War. A keen gardener, he was commemorated by a garden in the cathedral close and a shrub donated to every parish.[13] He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).

Writings

Among his published works,

  • Is it Reasonable to Believe? (1935) London: Hodder & Stoughton.
  • From a Cornish Bishop's Garden (2001), Penzance: Alison Hodge – a collection of newspaper articles from The Guardian, (an Anglican weekly newspaper) edited and introduced by Douglas Pett.[14]

References

  1. ↑ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.493
  2. ↑ NPG details
  3. ↑ London Gazette
  4. ↑ Bishop of Truro: Archdeacon Hunkin Appointed The Times Monday, 1 April 1935; p. 14; Issue 47027; col F
  5. ↑ “Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  6. ↑ Wood, Joanna (2005), High on the Hill, pp. 184–185. Blue Hill Publishing, ISBN 0-9549005-1-0.
  7. ↑ Church web-site
  8. ↑ Dunstan, A. & Peart-Binns, J. S. (1977) Cornish Bishop. London: Epworth ISBN 0716202824/ ISBN 978-0-7162-0282-0
  9. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940–41 Oxford, OUP,1941
  10. ↑ "British Legion volunteers". The Times. 7 October 1938. p. 8.
  11. ↑ Bishop of Truro: a Great Pastoral Leader The Times Monday, 30 October 1950; p. 6; Issue 51835; col E
  12. ↑ "Joseph Hunkin in New York". Time Inc. 14 February 1938. Retrieved 20 March 2009.
  13. ↑ Brown, H. Miles (1976) A Century for Cornwall. Truro: Blackford; pp. 102–116
  14. ↑ Hunkin, J.W. "From a Cornish bishop's garden". Copac. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Walter Frere		 Bishop of Truro
1935–1950		 Succeeded by
Edmund Morgan


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