Gordon Tindall

The Rt Revd
Gordon Leslie Tindall
Bishop of Grahamstown
Church Anglican
Province Southern Africa
Diocese Grahamstown
In office 1964-1969
Predecessor Robert Selby Taylor
Successor Bill Bendyshe Burnett
Orders
Ordination 1936
Personal details
Born 1910
Died 24 June 1969

The Rt Rev Gordon Leslie Tindall was the eighth Bishop of Grahamstown.[1] He was born in 1910 and educated at Hatfield College, Durham.[2] Ordained in 1936,[3] his first post was a curacy in Swinton. He then emigrated to Africa to become a missionary priest. From 1939 he was Rector of Vryburg, then Director of the South Bechuanaland Mission. Later he was Archdeacon of King William's Town, then Director of religious education in Grahamstown before his elevation to the Episcopate. He died on 24 June 1969.[4]

Notes

  1. University of the Witwatersrand
  2. Who's Who 2008. A&C Black. 10 December 2007. ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  3. Oxford University Press (1976). Crockford's Clerical Directory: A Reference Book of the Clergy of the Provinces of Canterbury and York and of Other Anglican Provinces and Dioceses. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-200008-8. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  4. The Times, Wednesday, Jun 25, 1969; pg. 12; Issue 57595; col G Obituary The Rt Rev Gordon Tindall
Anglican Church of Southern Africa titles
Preceded by
Robert Selby Taylor
Bishop of Grahamstown
1964 – 1969
Succeeded by
Bill Bendyshe Burnett
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