Norman Henry Tubbs was an eminent Anglican clergyman in the mid-20th century.

Norman Henry Tubbs was educated at Highgate

Highgate School

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 and Caius

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

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. Ordained in 1903 he was initially a Curate

Curate

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 at Whitechapel

Whitechapel

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 Parish Church before moving to India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 as a CMS

Church Mission Society

The Church Mission Society, also known as the Church Missionary Society, is a group of evangelistic societies working with the Anglican Communion and Protestant Christians around the world...

 missionary

Missionary

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, eventually becoming Principal

Dean (education)

In academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, or over a specific area of concern, or both...

 of Bishop’s College, Calcutta. In 1923 he was elevated to the Episcopate as the 4th Bishop of Tinnevelly

Bishop of Tinnevelly

The Bishop of Tinnevelly was the Ordinary of the Anglican Church in Tinnevelly from its inception in 1896 until the foundation of the Church in India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon in 1927; and after that head of one of its Dioceses....

. Translated

Translation (ecclesiastical)

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 to Rangoon

Bishop of Rangoon

The Lord Bishop of Rangoon was the Anglican bishop responsible for the diocese of Rangoon in the province of Calcutta from 1877 to 1970. Beforehand British Burma, then part of the Indian Empire, had come under the guidance of the Bishop of Calcutta, Metropolitan of India...

 in 1928, he returned to England six years later to be Archdeacon of Chester and then its Dean

Dean (religion)

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. He died on September 2, 1965.