The Rt Rev

Right Reverend

The Right Reverend is a style applied to certain religious figures.*In the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain it applies to bishops except that The Most Reverend is used for archbishops .*In some churches with a...

 (George) Eric Gordon (1905–1992) was an eminent Anglican  bishop

Bishop

A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

  in the twentieth century.

He was born on 29 July 1905 and educated at St Olave's Grammar School

St Olave's Grammar School

St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School is a super-selective boys' secondary school in Orpington, Greater London, England. The school is consistently one of the top achieving state schools in the UK and it was The Sunday Times State School of the Year in 2008...

 and the St Catharine's College, Cambridge

St Catharine's College, Cambridge

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. Ordained in 1929 he began his career with a curacy

Curate

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 at Holy Trinity, Leicester

Leicester

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, after which he was Vice-Principal

Dean (religion)

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 of Bishop Wilson College, Isle of Man

Isle of Man

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. In 1935 he became Chaplain

Chaplain

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 to the Bishop of Sodor and Man

William Stanton Jones

William Stanton Jones was an Anglican bishop.Stanton-Jones was educated at Durham University. Ordained in 1892 he began his ordained ministry as a curate at Widnes, after which he was vicar of St Polycarp’s Liverpool. He was then vicar of St Mary’s with St Lawrence's Kirkdale, Liverpool and rural...

. In 1942 he became Rector

Rector

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 of Kersal

Kersal

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 then Rural Dean

Rural Dean

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 of Middleton

Middleton, Greater Manchester

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. From 1951 to 1966 he was Provost

Provost (religion)

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 of Chelmsford Cathedral

Chelmsford Cathedral

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  and Rector

Rector

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 of Chelmsford

Chelmsford

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 when he ascended to the Episcopate as the Bishop of Sodor and Man

Bishop of Sodor and Man

The Bishop of Sodor and Man is the Ordinary of the Diocese of Sodor and Man in the Province of York in the Church of England. The diocese covers the Isle of Man. The see is in the town of Peel where the bishop's seat is located at the Cathedral Church of St German, elevated to cathedral status on 1...

, a post he held for eight years.

In 1974 he retired to Eynsham

Eynsham

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 in Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire

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. He died on 6 June 1992.