The Rt. Rev. Percy Stevens was a missionary of the Anglican Church.
Born on 21 May 1882 [1] and educated at Winchester House, Bristol and St Aidan's Theological College, Birkenhead, he was ordained in 1907 and began his ecclesiastical career as a Curate at St Jude's, Plymouth. [2] For many years a CMS Missionary in Kwangsi-Hunan he was Bishop of that area from 1933 to 1949.
He died on 7 July 1966 [3]
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