Ian Macdonald Griggs (17 May 1928 – 11 January 2021)‘GRIGGS, Rt Rev. Ian Macdonald’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 , accessed 5 July 2012 was the 2nd Anglican Bishop of Ludlow from 1987 until 1994.Debrett's People of Today 1992 (London, Debrett's) )
Biography Griggs was educated at Brentwood School, Essex and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th ed., p. 382. He trained for ordination at Westcott House, Cambridge and was ordained deacon in 1954 and priest in 1955.Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th ed., p. 382. He served his title at St Cuthbert's, Portsmouth (1954–59).Church web-site He was then Bishop's Chaplain (1959–62) and Youth Chaplain (1959–64) in the Diocese of Sheffield.Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th ed., p. 382. He was then successively Vicar of St Cuthbert's, Firvale (1964–71), St Mary and All Saints' Church, Kidderminster (1971-82) and Team Rector of Kidderminster (1982–84) before being collated as Archdeacon of Ludlow (1984–87) (as well as Priest-in-Charge of Tenbury (1984–87)) and then Bishop of Ludlow.Crockford's Clerical Directory (Lambeth: Church House ) He was consecrated a bishop on 22 July 1987, by Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Southwark Cathedral. From 1984 to 1994 he was also Prebendary of Hereford. After retiring from the Bishopric of Ludlow, he settled at Patterdale in the Lake District and served from 1994 as honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Carlisle.
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