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Name: HEYWOOD, Richard Stanley MA, DD (Rt. Rev.)

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Birth Date: 27 Oct 1867 London

Death Date: 16 Dec 1955 Kenilworth

First Date: 1918

Last Date: 1937

Profession: CMS, Bishop of Mombasa Diocese, CMS missionary in Bombay Diocese 1894-1918; Principal Div. School, Poona 1894; sec. CMS Bombay 1903; Hon. Canon, Bombay Cathedral 1906

Area: Bishopbourne, Nairobi

Married: In Walcot St Andrew, Somerset 23 Aug 1894 Mary Isobel Courtier Whitley b. 14 Dec 1870 Bath, d. Kenilworth 23 Nov 1956

Children: Margaret 'Madge' Elizabeth (Williams) (14 July 1899 Poona-15 Jan 1982); Kathleen Mary (1902-1999) (m. Douglas Strangways-Dixon); Norah Isabel (Lawrence) (7 Nov 1905 Girgaum, Bombay-19 Oct 1993 Falmouth)

Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, EA & Rhodesia, Red 22, Foster, Gazette, Red 19, Red 22

School: Wellington College, Trinity College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, 27th Wrangler

General Information:

East Africa & Rhodesia - 22/12/55 - The Rt. Rev. Richard Stanley Heywood, DD., who was for 18 years Bishop of Mombasa, died last Friday in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, in his 89th year. He was the eldest son of a London solicitor, and was educated at a school in Brighton, at Wellington, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became 27th Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1889. After study at Ridley Hall he was ordained in 1892, and his first curacy was in Leyton, a suburb of London, but he soon went to Walcot, Bath. There he met and married Miss Mary Isabel Whitley, who survives him with three daughters of the marriage.
He went to India in 1894 as principal of the CMS's Divinity School in Poona, whence he went in 1903 to take charge of a mission at Girgaum, Bombay. For the last 5 of his 15 years there he was also secretary of the CMS for Western India. He was examining chaplain to the Bishop of Bombay.
In 1919 he was consecrated Bishop of Mombasa in Bombay Cathedral, and he served in East Africa until 1937. During his bishopric the new Diocese of Central Tanganyika was created from the large, scattered, and unwieldy area which he had been called to administer. He was deeply interested in all the problems of East Africa, which he left on account of the ill-health of Mrs Heywood. He was then nearly 70, but was fit enough to accept the appointment of Assistant Bishop of Coventry, and continued in that office until three years ago.
Foster - In 1935 his daughter - Miss M.E. Heywood - married Rev A M Williams the Secretary to the CMS Uganda Mission; she lived in Nottinghamshire in her retirement and was still there when her mother died. Heywood retired in 1936 and was appointed as Assistant Bishop in Coventry. He died in 1953. His wife, aged 86, died 23-11-1956
Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Nairobi, South Area - Richard Stanley Heywood - Bishop of Mombasa, Bishopsbourne and Mrs Mary Isabel Courtier Heywood - Bishopsbourne and Miss Elizabeth Frances Magee Heywood - Missionary, Bishopsbourne
Red Book 1919 - Bishop of Mombasa
Cambridge Univ. Alumni pens. at TRINITY, June 14, 1886. [Elder] s. of Benjamin Arthur (1854), of Banner, Beckenham, Kent. B. Oct. 27, 1867, in London. School, Wellington College. Matric. Michs. 1886; Scholar, 1889; B.A. (27th Wrangler) 1889; M.A. 1893; D.D. 1920. Ord. deacon (St Albans) 1892; priest (Bath and Wells); C. of Leyton, Essex, 1892. C. of Walcot, Bath, 1892-4. Principal of the C.M.S. Divinity College at Poona, 1894-1901. Secretary, C.M.S., Bombay, 1903-17. Hon. Canon, Bombay Cathedral. Bishop of Mombasa, 1918-36, and Dean of Mombasa Cathedral, 1933-6. Assistant Bishop and Hon. Canon of Coventry, 1937-47-. Brother of William B. (1889). (Wellington Coll. Reg.; Crockford; Who's Who.)
1939 England and Wales Register living in Kenilworth with wife - Asst Bishop of Coventry [until 1952]

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