William Llewellyn

William Somers Llewellyn (16 August 190722 July 2001) was the inaugural bishop of Lynn from 1963 until 1972. Educated at Eton and Balliol, 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. From 1940 until 1946 he was a chaplain to the Forces and then vicar of Tetbury, from when on he was to have a deep affinity with the area. 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. References 1907 births People educated at Eton College Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford 2001 deaths Bishops of Lynn 20th-century Church of England bishops Archdeacons of Lynn World War II chaplains Royal Army Chaplains' Department officers