Hugh Blackburne, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Hugh Blackburne

British bishop

Date of Birth: 04-Jun-1912

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1995

Profession: priest

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Hugh Charles Blackburne was the Bishop of Thetford from 1977 until 1981.Blackburne was born into an ecclesiastical family on 4 June 1912 and educated at Marlborough and Clare College, Cambridge before beginning his ordained ministry as a curate in Almondbury.
He was then a chaplain in the Forces and then held incumbencies at Milton, Hampshire, Harrow, the Hilsborough parishes and Ranworth before being ordained to the episcopate.
He died in 1995.