About Eric Wall
Lived 1915 – 2011 (aged 95). Eric Wall was a chaplain and presbyter.
Eric St Quintin Wall (19 April 1915 – 11 April 2011) was the second Bishop of Huntingdon from 1972 to 1980 and from then on an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese of Gloucester. The son of a clergyman – Sydney Herbert Wall —, he was born on 19 April 1915 and educated at Clifton College and Brasenose College, Oxford. Ordained in 1939 he began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Boston, Lincolnshire after which he was a World War II chaplain in the RAFVR. When peace returned he held incumbencies at Malmesbury, Cricklade and then finally (before his appointment to the episcopate) at Westbury Park, Bristol.
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Bishop of Huntingdon; British Anglican bishop
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Eric Wall was born on 19 April 1915.
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Eric Wall died on 11 April 2011.
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Eric Wall was a chaplain and presbyter.
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