Colin Docker

The Rt Revd Colin Docker MA
Bishop of Horsham
Diocese	Diocese of Chichester
In office	1975–1991 Area bishop: 1984–1991
Predecessor	Simon Phipps
Successor	John Hind
Other posts	Honorary assistant bishop in Exeter (1991–present)
Orders
Ordination	c. 1949 (deacon); c. 1950
Consecration	1975
Personal details
Born	3 December 1925
Died	4 November 2014 (aged 88)
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	Col Philip Docker OBE TD DL & Doris Whitehill
Spouse	Thelma Upton (m. 1950)
Children	1 son; 1 daughter
Alma mater	University of Birmingham

Ivor Colin Docker (known as Colin;^[1][2] 3 December 1925 – 4 November 2014) was the 2nd Anglican Bishop of Horsham from 1975^[3] until 1991 and the first area bishop from the area scheme's institution in 1984.^[4]

Educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, Birmingham University and St Catherine's Society, Oxford,^[5] he studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a Curacy in Normanton, Yorkshire.^[6] From 1954 he was Area Secretary of the CMS^[7] and, after spells as Vicar of Midhurst and Seaford he was appointed Rural Dean of Eastbourne in 1971. Four years later he was elevated to the Episcopate. A keen photographer, he retired to Bovey Tracey in 1991, where he continued to serve the church as an honorary assistant bishop within the Diocese of Exeter.

References

1. The Bells & Bell Ringers of St Margaret's Church, Angmering
2. Diocese of Port Moresby — Bishop's News (Jan 2003)
3. The Times, Saturday, 1 February 1975; p. 16; Issue 59309; col B Archbishop Coggan’s first consecration
4. "4: The Dioceses Commission, 1978–2002" (PDF). Church of England. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
5. ‘DOCKER, Rt Rev. Ivor Colin’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 , accessed 5 July 2012
6. Debrett's Distinguished People of Today: 1990, London, Debrett's ISBN 1-870520-03-3
7. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X