Roy Cowdry

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The Rt Rev. Roy Walter Frederick Cowdry, [1] AKC was Suffragan Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town [2] and Archdeacon of Cape Town from 1958 to 1964. [3]

Cowdry was educated at King's College London and ordained in 1942. [4] After curacies in Perivale and Ealing he became Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Cape Town.

In 1964 he became Rector of St Cuthbert, Port Elizabeth; [5] and in 1970 of St Phillip in the same city. [6]

He died on the 6th of November 1984, and his ashes were interred in the St Cuthbert's Garden of Remembrance.

Notes

  1. London Gazette
  2. April 18, 1962 Alton Evening Telegraph; Alton, Illinois p15
  3. 'COWDRY, Rt. Rev Roy Walter Frederick', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 28 Oct 2015
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 p216 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN   0-19-200008-X
  5. Church web site
  6. Anglican Diocese of Port Elizabeth


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