Hugh Norton

Hugh Ross Norton OBE (3 April 1890 – 10 January 1969) was Archdeacon of Sudbury from 1945 to 1962.

Norton was born on 3 April 1890 in Marylebone. He was educated at Monkton Combe School and Wadham College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1914 and served curacies in Whitechapel, Stepney and Tottenham; also acting as a wartime Chaplain to the Forces in the Middle East. He was Precentor of Wakefield Cathedral from 1921 to 1924; and again a Chaplain to the Forces from 1924 until 1945 when he took up his Archdeacon’s appointment. He was Rector of Horringer from 1945 to 1958; and then a Canon Residentiary of St Edmundsbury Cathedral from 1958 until 1964: there is a memorial to him in the cathedral. He was Archdeacon Emeritus of Sudbury from 1962 until his death on 10 January 1969 in Bury St Edmunds.