William Somers Llewellyn (16 August 1907 –22 July 2001) was the inaugural bishop of Lynn from 1963 [1] until 1972. [2]
Educated at Eton and Balliol, [3] he was deaconed on Trinity Sunday 1935 (16 June) [4] and priest the next Trinity Sunday (7 June 1937) – both times by Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London at St Paul's Cathedral [5] – and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Chiswick. [6] From 1940 until 1946 he was a chaplain to the Forces and then vicar of Tetbury, [7] from when on he was to have a deep affinity with the area. [8] Additionally rural dean of the area from 1955, in 1961 he was appointed Archdeacon of Lynn and suffragan bishop a year later: he was consecrated a bishop by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 18 October 1963 at Westminster Abbey. [9] On retirement he continued to serve the church as an assistant bishop within the Diocese of Gloucester.
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