David Saunders-Davies

David Henry Saunders-Davies (1894 – 12 August 1975^[1]) was the second Bishop of Stockport from 1951 until 1965.^[2]

Educated at Liverpool College and Queens' College, Cambridge,^[3] he held Curacies at St John, Birkenhead^[4] and St John, Reading^[5] and incumbencies at Hollingworth and Mobberley before wartime service with the RAFVR. When peace returned he was appointed Rural Dean and then Suffragan Bishop of Stockport. He was consecrated a bishop by Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York, on 2 February 1951 at York Minster.^[6] After retiring, he was an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese of Worcester

References

1. Crockford's clerical directory Lambeth, Church House, 1976 Obituaries
2. New Bishop of Stockport consecrated The Times, Saturday, 3 Feb 1951; pg. 8; Issue 51916; col D
3. Saunders-Davies, David Henry. Who Was Who. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
4. Closed in 1971
5. Parish profile
6. "Consecrations in two provinces (Archived; subscription only)". Church Times (#4592). 9 February 1951. p. 108. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 3 April 2016. (subscription required (help)).