Walter Baddeley

Walter Hubert Baddeley (1894–1960) was the seventh Anglican Bishop of Melanesia, serving from 1932 to 1947. He was born in Portslade, Hove, Sussex, and educated at Keble College and Cuddesdon College before ordination. Baddeley was ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in 1921, after which he served as both curate and vicar in the Diocese of York. Bishop Baddeley remained in the Diocese of Melanesia during World War II, paying particular attention to medical work among those injured in fighting with the Imperial Japanese Army.

He received an honorary S.T.D. (Doctor of Sacred Theology) degree from Columbia University in 1944. In 1945, Baddeley received the Medal of Freedom. After returning to England, he served as suffragan Bishop of Whitby from 1947 to 1954 and then as Bishop of Blackburn from 1954 to 1960.

Baddeley is listed in the Calendar of saints (Church of the Province of Melanesia).

Trivia

In his novel HMS Ulysses, Alistair McLean named one of the fictional, later sunken, ships after Walter Baddeley.

External links

Material by and about Walter Hubert Baddeley from Project Canterbury
The 1938 Book of Common Prayer of the Diocese of Melanesia, edited by Baddeley

Religious titles
Preceded by Frederick M. Molyneux	Bishop of Melanesia 1932-1947	Succeeded by Sidney Gething Caulton
Preceded by Harold Evelyn Hubbard	Bishop of Whitby 1947-1954	Succeeded by Philip William Wheeldon
Preceded by Wilfred Marcus Askwith	Bishop of Blackburn 1954-1960	Succeeded by Charles Robert Claxton

Bishops and Archbishops of Melanesia

Bishops	John Patteson John Selwyn Cecil Wilson Cecil Wood John Steward Frederick Molyneux Walter Baddeley Sydney Caulton Alfred Hill John Chisholm

Archbishops	John Chisholm Norman Palmer Amos Waiaru Sir Ellison Pogo David Vunagi

Bishops of Whitby

Harry Woollcombe Harold Hubbard Walter Baddeley Philip Wheeldon George Snow John Yates Clifford Barker Gordon Bates Robert Ladds Martin Warner Paul Ferguson

Bishops of Blackburn

Percy Herbert Wilfred Askwith Walter Baddeley Charles Claxton Robert Martineau Stewart Cross Alan Chesters Nicholas Reade Julian Henderson

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