Hugh Charles Blackburne was the Bishop of Thetford from 1977 until 1981. [1]
Blackburne was born into an ecclesiastical family [2] on 4 June 1912 and educated at Marlborough [3] and Clare College, Cambridge before beginning his ordained ministry as a curate in Almondbury. [4] He was then a chaplain in the Forces and then held incumbencies at Milton, Hampshire, Harrow, the Hillsborough parishes [5] and Ranworth before being ordained to the episcopate. He died on 15 October 1995. [1]
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