Lucian Usher-Wilson

Lucian Charles Usher-Wilson (10 January 1903 – 28 August 1984) was a British Anglican bishop who served in Uganda during the mid-20th-century and afterwards in England.[1]

Usher-Wilson was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford. He was ordained deacon in 1927 and priest in 1939.[2] He was a teacher at King's College, Budo from 1927 to 1933; and a CMS missionary until his appointment to succeed Arthur Kitching as diocesan Bishop on the Upper Nile in 1936.[3] He was consecrated as a bishop on 28 October 1936, at St Paul's Cathedral by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury.[4]

Under his initiative, the Diocese on the Upper Nile was split in 1961 and Usher-Wilson remained as diocesan bishop of one part, afterwards called the Diocese of Mbale (so he became the first Bishop of Mbale);[5] he resigned that See in 1964[6] and became Vicar of Churt and an Assistant Bishop of Guildford.[1] On his retirement to Westbury-on-Trym in 1972, he was the longest-serving bishop at the time in any Anglican church; he became an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Bristol.[7] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).[1]