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Simon Wilton Phipps MC (1921–2001) was a British Anglican bishop, who served as Bishop of Lincoln between 1974 and 1987.

Life

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He was born on 6 July 1921, the son of Captain William Duncan Phipps R.N. and Pamela Ross, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.

In 1940, he was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards. He fought both in North Africa, where he was wounded, and in Italy. On 19 April 1945, in the Allied advance to the River Po, he was again wounded during a reconnaissance mission and was subsequently awarded the Military Cross (MC). He reached the rank of major, before being demobilised in 1946.

Following the war, having read History at Trinity, he studied for the priesthood at Westcott House, Cambridge. A talented writer of lyrics, he was President of Footlights in 1949.

In 1953, after a short spell as a curate in Huddersfield, Phipps was appointed Chaplain at Trinity. That appointment was followed by ten years at Coventry as an Industrial Chaplain, during which time he lived in a small council flat on a new housing estate.

The modesty of his surroundings did not prevent him from entertaining his long-time friend, Princess Margaret, "to the great interest of his neighbours".

In 1968, Phipps was appointed as Suffragan Bishop of Horsham, before being translated to Lincoln in 1974, where he served as Bishop until 1987.

Marriage and death

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In 1973, he married Mary Welch, who died in 2000. They had no children. Phipps died in January 2001.

Sources

• Caroline Gilmour and Patricia Wyndham, Simon Phipps: A Portrait (Continuum, 2003)
• "The Right Reverend Simon Phipps". The Telegraph. 7 February 2001. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2023.

References

1. "Phipps, Rt Rev. Simon Wilton". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2007.
2. Edward H. Patey, Cathedral and Industry, in Simon Phipps: A Portrait.

• Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
• Bishops of Lincoln
• Bishops of Horsham
• 20th-century Church of England bishops
• Coldstream Guards officers
• Recipients of the Military Cross
• British Army personnel of World War II
• People educated at Eton College
• 2001 deaths
• 1921 births