Catalogue description Bishops Of Gloucester

John Wakeman (Wiche) 1541 (died 1549)

John Hooper 1550 Resigned April 1552; nominated Bishop of Worcester and Gloucester May 1552. The sees were divided after his deprivation. (deprived 1554)

James Brook(e)s 1554 (died 1558)

James Bowshier (Nominated on Brook's death, but prevented from becoming Bishop by the death of Queen Mary.

Richard Cheyney Bishop of Bristol in commendam from April 1562. 1562 (died 1579)

John Bullingham Consecrated to the sees of Gloucester and Bristol; resigned Bristol in 1589. (Ballingham) 1581

Godfrey Goldsborough 1598

Thomas Ravis 1604/5

Henry Parry 1607 (tr. 1610)

Giles Thompson 1611

Miles Smith 1612

Godfrey Goodman 1624 (deprived 1640)

William Nicolson 1660

John Pritchett (Prichard) 1672

Robert Frampton 1681 (deprived 1690

Edward Fowler 1691

Richard Willis 1714

Joseph Wilcocks 1721

Elias Sydall 1731 (died 1733)

Martin Benson 1734

James Johnson 1752

William Warburton 1759

James Yorke 1779

Samuel Hallifax 1781

Richard Beadon 1789

George Isaac Huntingford 1802

Henry Ryder 1815

Christopher Bethell 1824

James Henry Monk The sees of Gloucester and Bristol were joined in 1836 (Order in Council 5 October 1836), and divided in 1897 (with effect from 1 January 1898.) 1830

Charles Thomas Baring 1856

William Thomson 1861

Charles John Ellicott 1863

Edgar Charles Summer Gibson 1905

Arthur Cayley Headlam 1923 (resigned 1945)

Clifford Salisbury Woodward 1946 (resigned 1953)

Wilfred Marcus Askwith 1954

Basil Tudor Guy 1963 (died 1975)

For biographical notes to 1815 see William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. I (1817), pp. 538-539, and T. D. Fosbrooke, An Original History of the City of Gloucester (1819), pp. 93-99.