Ralph Gordon Hawkins London Gazette was the fifth Anglican Bishop of Bunbury from 1957 to 1977.
Hawkins was born in Newfoundland, Canada in 1911 and educated at University Memorial College in St John's and Durham University."Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 . He was ordained in 1936.Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941 His first post was a curacy at St Anne's Brislington, after which he was rector of MorawaMoawa website and then of Wembley-Floreat Park. From 1943 he was a wartime chaplain in the RAAF then Rector of St Hilda's North Perth.Church website In 1957 he became Archdeacon of Perth and Bishop of Bunbury,National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives posts he held for 20 years. He died in July 1987.
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