Robert Stannard (bishop) - Misplaced Pages

Robert William Stannard (20 October 1895 – 26 December 1986) was an eminent Anglican clergyman in the middle part of the 20th century.

He was born on 20 October 1895 and educated at Westminster School and, after wartime service in the Middlesex Regiment, Christ Church, Oxford. Ordained in 1922 he began his career with curacies at Bermondsey and Putney and was then Vicar of St James, Barrow-in-Furness. Subsequently, Rural Dean of Dalton, he then became Archdeacon of Doncaster and Rector of High Melton.

In 1947, he was appointed to the episcopate as Bishop of Woolwich, a post he held until his appointment as Dean of Rochester. As Dean, he was the first Warden of Rochester Theological College in 1959, before the appointment of Stuart Blanch the following year. An Honorary Chaplain to the King, he retired to Fleet, Hampshire in 1966 and died twenty years later on Boxing Day.

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Church of England titles
Preceded byLeslie Lang	Bishop of Woolwich 1947–1959	Succeeded byJohn Robinson
Preceded byThomas Crick	Dean of Rochester 1959–1966	Succeeded byStanley Betts

v t e Bishops of Woolwich
John Leeke William Hough Arthur Preston Leslie Lang Robert Stannard John Robinson David Sheppard Michael Marshall Peter Hall (became first area bishop)
Area bishops	Peter Hall Colin Buchanan Christopher Chessun Michael Ipgrave Karowei Dorgu Alastair Cutting

v t e Deans of Rochester
Early modern	Walter Phillips Edmund Freke Thomas Willoughby John Coldwell Thomas Blague Richard Milbourne Robert Scott (elder) Godfrey Goodman Walter Balcanquhall Henry King Thomas Turner Benjamin Lany Nathaniel Hardy Peter Mews Thomas Lamplugh John Castilion Simon Lowth Henry Ullock Samuel Pratt Nicholas Clagett Thomas Herring William Barnard John Newcombe William Markham Benjamin Newcombe Thomas Thurlow Richard Cust Thomas Dampier
Late modern	Samuel Goodenough William Busby Robert Stevens Thomas Dale Robert Scott (younger) Samuel Hole Ernald Lane John Storrs Reginald Talbot Francis Underhill Ernest Blackie Thomas Crick Robert Stannard Stanley Betts John Arnold Edward Shotter Jonathan Meyrick (Acting) Adrian Newman Philip Hesketh (Acting) Mark Beach Philip Hesketh (Acting) Philip Hesketh

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Late modern

v t e Archdeacons of Doncaster
Folliott Sandford Robert Stannard John Brewis John Nicholson Peter Bostock Evan Rogers Ian Harland Desmond Carnelley Bernard Holdridge Bob Fitzharris Steve Wilcockson David Stevens (Acting) Javaid Iqbal

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