Campbell Hone

Campbell Richard Hone (13 September 187316 May 1967) was an eminent Anglican bishop in the second quarter of the 20th century.

Early life He was born into an ecclesiastical family – his father was Evelyn J. Hone (of the Anglo-Irish Hone family), sometime Vicar of Esher – educated at Blackheath Proprietary School and Wadham College, Oxford and ordained in 1898. From 1905 to 1909 he was Vice Principal of Leeds Clergy School, becoming additionally an Examining Chaplain to Eden as Bishop of Wakefield (1907–1928); after Leeds, he was Vicar of Pellon (1909–1915) and then of Brighouse (1916–1920), during which time he became also an honorary canon of Wakefield Cathedral (1918–1920). In 1920 he crossed over to the Diocese of York, becoming Rector of Whitby (1920–1930) and a Prebendary of York Minster (1926–1930), and serving that diocese as a Proctor in Convocation (1925–1930). When Seaton died during the 1938 jubilee celebrations of their diocese's erection in 1888, Temple commissioned Hone to act up as diocesan bishop, and he was soon chosen to succeed Seaton and translated to the diocesan See of Wakefield. He retired in 1945.

Family, honours and pursuits Hone married Emily, a daughter of a physician named F. P. Weaver, and they had two sons and two daughters. He was made an honorary fellow of his alma mater, Wadham, in 1939; wrote a Life of Dr John Radcliffe, 1652–1714 (published 1950); and gained a Doctor of Divinity (DD) degree from Lambeth. At his death, he resided at North Oxford. His great-grandchildren include the actor Dugald Bruce Lockhart.