About Charles Ridsdale
Lived 1873 – 1952 (aged 78–79). Charles Ridsdale was a priest.
Charles Henry Ridsdale (also Risdale; 1873–1952) was an eminent Anglican bishop in the first half of the twentieth century.
Educated at Malvern College and Trinity College, Oxford he was ordained in 1898. and began his ecclesiastical career as a Curate in Tideswell. After this he was head of the Trinity College Mission at Stratford; Vicar of St Margaret's, Leytonstone; and then Archdeacon of Gloucester before a 13-year spell as Bishop of Colchester (1933–1946).
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British bishop
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Charles Ridsdale was born in 1873.
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Charles Ridsdale died in 1952.
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