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Horace Tonks

1891 – 1959

Bishop of the Windward Islands; British Anglican colonial bishop

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Lived 1891 – 1959 (aged 68). Horace Tonks was an anglican priest.

Horace Norman Vincent Tonks (29 January 1891 – 25 November 1959) was an Anglican colonial bishop in the Windward Islands from 1936 until 1949.

He was born in Walsall, England, on 29 January 1891 to Henry and Emily Tonks and educated at the town's Queen Mary's Grammar School and Lichfield Theological College. Ordained in 1918 after a curacy in Fenton, he was priest in charge of Holy Cross, Airedale, then from 1926 to 1935 the vicar of Saint Sampson with Holy Trinity in York. After that he was Archdeacon of Grenada for a brief period in 1935 and 1936 before his appointment to the episcopate in the Windward Islands. On his return to England, he was Rector of Leybourne in Kent from 1949 to 1956. He died on 25 November 1959.

Family In 1921, he married Alice Underwood. They had three sons and two daughters.

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Lichfield Theological College, Queen Mary's Grammar School
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Horace Norman Vincent Tonks

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Bishop of the Windward Islands; British Anglican colonial bishop (1891-1959)

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Horace Tonks was born on 29 January 1891.

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Horace Tonks died on 25 November 1959.

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Horace Tonks was an anglican priest.

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· Wikipedia: Horace Tonks

· Wikidata: Q5902190

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