William Somers Llewellyn (16 August 190722 July 2001) was the inaugural bishop of Lynn from 1963The Times, Saturday, 19 October 1963; p. 10; Issue 55836; col C Ecclesiastical News New suffragan bishop consecrated until 1972.The Times, Thursday, 21 December 1972; p. 4; Issue 58662; col E Resignation of the Bishop of Lynn
Educated at Eton and Balliol,Who's Who 1970 London, A & C Black, 1971 he was deaconed on Trinity Sunday 1935 (16 June) and priest the next Trinity Sunday (7 June 1937) – both times by Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London at St Paul's Cathedral – and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Chiswick.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 From 1940 until 1946 he was a chaplain to the Forces and then vicar of Tetbury,List of incumbents from when on he was to have a deep affinity with the area.He wrote ”A short history of Tetbury Parish Church" (Tetbury, Tetbury PCC, 1959);and retired to the area after resigning as a bishop. Additionally rural dean of the area from 1955, in 1961 he was appointed Archdeacon of Lynn and suffragan bishop a year later: he was consecrated a bishop by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 18 October 1963 at Westminster Abbey. On retirement he continued to serve the church as an assistant bishop within the Diocese of Gloucester.
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