Simon Phipps

Simon Wilton Phipps MC (1921–2001) was a British Anglican bishop, who served as Bishop of Lincoln between 1974 and 1987. Life He was born on 6 July 1921, the son of Captain William Duncan Phipps R.N. and Pamela Ross, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1940, he was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards. He fought both in North Africa, where he was wounded, and in Italy. On 19 April 1945, in the Allied advance to the River Po, he was again wounded during a reconnaissance mission and was subsequently awarded the Military Cross (MC). He reached the rank of major, before being demobilised in 1946.