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Name: ASKWITH, Wilfred Marcus KCMG, DD (Rev.)
Nee: son of Henry and Louisa Askwith
Birth Date: 24 Apr 1890 Hereford
Death Date: 16 July 1962 Gloucester
First Date: 1925
Last Date: 1943
Profession: Chaplain, bishop
Area: Nakuru
Married: In Coundle-Stourton, Dorset 30 Oct 1928 Margaret Sibyl Luis Fernandes b. 21 Nov 1896 Wakefield, d. 1969 Sturminster
Book Reference: Red 25, Red 31, EA & Rhodesia, Foster, Rift Valley
General Information:
EA & Rhodesia - 2/1/58 - KCMG - chaplain in Nakuru when he went to Kenya in 1925, later made an honorary canon of Mombasa. In 1932 he became vicar of Sherborne, Dorset. Later Bishop of Gloucester
Foster - Ordained in 1913. 1926 appointed Chaplain, Nakuru; 27/9/1931 appointed honorary Canon; He left Kenya on being appointed as Bishop of Blackburn in 1943, later Bishop of Gloucester
Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 30 Jun 1925 - Rev. W.M. Askwith
Hut - Bishop of Gloucester
1939 England and Wales Register living with wife in Leeds
Had been in the 1914 Cambridge boat crew with Sidney Ernest Swann and Clarence Buxton.
Esther Eliza Hopcraft, Esther's Story, 1996 ' [Askwith was] a tall, gentle soul - rather like a quiet greyhound beside a fussy terrier [Canon Burns].'