Lichfield Theological College

College in Lichfield, England

Lichfield Theological College^[1] was founded in 1857^[2] to train Anglican clergy to serve in the Church of England.^[3] It was located on the south side of the Cathedral Close in Lichfield, Staffordshire and closed in 1972.

Notable staff

Cecil Cherrington, lecturer, later Bishop of Waikato, New Zealand
George Kilpatrick, lecturer, later Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford
Barry Rogerson, lecturer, later Bishop of Bristol
James Srawley, Vice-Principal, later Canon of Lincoln Cathedral

List of Principals

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1880–1885: George Herbert Moberly^[4]
1958–1965: John Fenton
1966–1972: John Yates

Notable alumni

John Barker, Dean of Cloyne in the Church of Ireland
French Chang-Him, Bishop of The Seychelles and Archbishop of the Indian Ocean
Mervyn Charles-Edwards, Bishop of Worcester
Malcolm Clark, Dean of Edinburgh
Robert Hodson, Bishop of Shrewsbury
Sope Johnson, Provost of the Cathedral Church of Christ, Lagos
Hope Patten, Anglo-Catholic priest known for his restoration of the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
John Simkin, Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand
Horace Tonks, Bishop of the Windward Islands
Frank Weston, Bishop of Knaresborough

References

^ "Photo". Archived from the original on 28 July 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
^ National Archives Archived 2014-07-26 at archive.today
^ Patrick Comerford
^ "Moberly, George Herbert", in Alumni Oxonienses 1715-1886, Vol. 3 (1892), p. 965