Thomas Burgess was an English author, philosopher, Bishop of St Davids and Bishop of Salisbury, who was greatly influential in the development of the Church in Wales. He founded St David's College, Lampeter, was a founding member of the Odiham Agricultural Society, helped establish the Royal Veterinary College in London, and was the first president of the Royal Society of Literature.
Llewelyn Lewellin was a cleric and academic, the first principal of St David's College, Lampeter and the first Dean of St Davids.
Monkton Combe School is a public school, located in the village of Monkton Combe near Bath in Somerset, England.
Douglas Henry Crick (1885-1973) was the Anglican Bishop of Chester from 1939 until 1955.
Charles Arthur William Aylen was an Anglican bishop.
Charles Fane de Salis (1860–1942) was Bishop of Taunton from 1911 to 1930.
George Arthur Hollis was a British Anglican bishop. He was bishop of Taunton from 1931 to 1944.
Mark Allin Hodson was an Anglican bishop in the latter half of the 20th century.
Francis Horner West was a British Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Taunton in the Church of England from 1962 until 1977.
Peter John Nott was an English Anglican bishop: from 1985 to 1999, he served as Bishop of Norwich.
Frederick Cyril Nugent Hicks was a Church of England bishop and author who served as Bishop of Gibraltar from 1927 to 1933, and Bishop of Lincoln from 1933 to 1942.
Thomas Eric Evans KCVO was Dean of St Paul's from 1988 until his death eight years later.
John Sheepshanks was an English Anglican Bishop in the last decade of the 19th century and the first one of the 20th.
The University of Wales Trinity Saint David is a multi-campus university with three main campuses in South West Wales, in Carmarthen, Lampeter and Swansea, a fourth campus in London, England, and learning centres in Cardiff, Wales, and Birmingham, England.
Alfred Edwin Morris was an English Anglican bishop, who served as the Bishop of Monmouth and Archbishop of Wales in the middle of the 20th century.
The Rt Rev Richard Stanley Heywood (1867–1955) was an Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century.
Ely Theological College was a college in Ely, Cambridgeshire, for training clergy in the Church of England. Founded in 1876 by James Woodford, Anglican Bishop of Ely, the college had a strong Anglo-Catholic tradition. Ely's "ritualistic" tendencies were attacked by Mr Samuel Smith MP in a House of Commons debate in 1899.
Edmund Willoughby Sara was an English Anglican clergyman who served as Bishop Coadjutor of Jamaica from 1937 to 1940.
The Roderic Bowen Library and Archives, housing university archives and special collections, is located inside the library building of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) Lampeter campus. The Lampeter campus is home to the oldest degree-granting institution in Wales, the former St David's College, and as such its Special Collections house significant information about the early history of higher education in Wales, alongside major donations from its founder the Anglican Bishop Thomas Burgess, and benefactors such as the East India Company surgeon and owner of enslaved people Thomas Phillips. The RBLA is named after Evan Roderic Bowen, Welsh Liberal Party politician, and president of the University of Wales, Lampeter, now part of UWTSD, from 1977-1992.
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