John Hare (bishop), Date of Birth, Date of Death

John Hare (bishop)

British bishop

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1912

Date of Death: 25-Oct-1976

Profession: priest

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

John Tyrrell Holmes Hare (24 November 1912 – 25 October 1976) was Bishop of Bedford from 1968 to 1977. He was educated at Brighton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
After a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon he was ordained in 1937 and began his career with a curacy at St Francis of Assisi, West Bromwich followed by a period as Vicar of St Matthias, Colindale.
In 1951 he began a long association with the Bedford area, being successively Rural Dean, Archdeacon of Bedford and then Suffragan Bishop.
He died in post on 25 October 1976.