Kenneth Bevan

Kenneth Graham Bevan was an Anglican missionary bishop.

Bevan was born into an ecclesiastical family[1] on 27 September 1898. He was educated at Great Yarmouth Grammar School and ordained in 1924. He was a curate of Holy Trinity, Tunbridge Wells[2] before missionary service in China, for the last 10 years of which (1940–1950) he was Bishop of Eastern Szechwan. Returning to England he was the vicar of Woolhope until 1966 and then an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Wakefield for a further 11 years.[3] He died on 3 December 1993.

References
  1. His father was the Rev. James Alfred Bevan > “Who was Who” 1897–1990 London, A & C Black 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  2. Church website
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X


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