Walter Baddeley
Walter Baddeley | |
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Great War): DSO MC | |
Alma mater | Keble College, Oxford |
Walter Hubert Baddeley DSO MC* (22 March 1894 – 11 February 1960)
Family and education
Called Hubert by his family, Baddeley was born in
Baddeley was one of 10 diocesan bishops in England in the 1950s who had been combatants in the Great War.[6]
Following completion of his degree (1920,
Early ministry
Baddeley was made deacon on Trinity Sunday 1921 (22 May)[8] and ordained priest that Advent (18 December 1921) — both times by Thomas Strong, Bishop of Ripon, at Ripon Cathedral.[9] He served his title (curacy) at St Bartholomew's Church, Armley until 1924, when he became Vicar of South Bank, North Yorkshire (where his curate was John Dickinson, later his assistant-bishop in Melanesia).
Melanesia
Having refused the role of assistant bishop of Melanesia to
Sending his wife and children to
Return to England
He arrived in London on 10 April and had furlough before taking up his new post. Baddeley was a popular figure with the austere Archbishop of York, Cyril Garbett, but Garbett did not support him for the post of diocesan bishop of Blackburn.[14]‘Great vigour and personal zeal. On the intellectual side, he would be below the usual standard, for he reads very little’.[15] However, the key figure in the appointments process was the PM, Winston Churchill, who would have been impressed by Baddeley's Record in both World Wars. So, on 13 August 1954, his nomination as Bishop of Blackburn was announced, and he took up the See on 10 October.[1]
He died in post at Bishop's House, Salesbury (Clayton-le-Dale, Lancashire) and his funeral was at Blackburn Cathedral on 15 February 1960, officiated by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of York.[1] Baddeley is listed in the Calendar of saints (Church of the Province of Melanesia).
Baddeley's son was
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Blain, Michael. Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific — ordained before 1932 (2019) pp. 57–63. (Accessed at Project Canterbury, 27 June 2019)
- ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 27 June 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ a b TNA WO374/3013
- ^ London Gazette,13.8.1918
- ^ LG 3.6.1919
- ^ 'What Did You Do in the Great War, Bishop II' by Tom Scherb, in Stand To!, issue 99, 2014, Western Front Association.
- ^ About Islands People Pacific Islands Monthly, November 1935, p13
- ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 27 June 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 27 June 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ Blain. p. 426.
- ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 27 June 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ B.S.I. Council Pacific Islands Monthly, 25 November 1937
- ^ Yorkshire Post obituary,12.2.1960
- ^ Baddeley is mentioned several times in Garbett's biography by Charles Smyth, Hodder and Stoughton, 1959
- ^ TNA PREM5/259. File re Blackburn 1954
- ^ "Church Times: "Obituary - The Ven Martin Baddeley". Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ Greaves, Jeremy (2 October 2019). "Building up of a better world". Anglican Focus. Anglican Diocese of Brisbane. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
External links
- Material by and about Walter Hubert Baddeley from Project Canterbury
- The 1938 Book of Common Prayer of the Diocese of Melanesia, edited by Baddeley