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The Right Reverend Stanley Kempthorne CBE
Bishop of Polynesia
Church	Church of the Province of New Zealand
Diocese	Polynesia
In office	1922–1962
Predecessor	Clayton Twitchell
Successor	John Vockler
Orders
Ordination	1914 (priesthood)
Consecration	1922
Personal details
Born	Leonard Stanley Kempthorne 2 August 1886 New Zealand
Died	July 25, 1963(1963-07-25) (aged 76)
Alma mater	Nelson College The Queen's College, Oxford

Leonard Stanley Kempthorne CBE (2 August 1886 – 25 July 1963) was a long-serving Anglican bishop in the 20th century.

Born into a Kiwi ecclesiastical family, Kempthorne was educated at Nelson College from 1900 to 1903, and at The Queen's College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1914. He worked for 18 months at Zaria in Northern Nigeria before a four-year stint as Chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfield. He was then Chaplain at Ipoh (Diocese of Singapore) in the Federated Malay States from 1920 to 1922 when he was appointed Bishop of Polynesia, a post he held for forty years.

Notes

1. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
2. The Fourteen Sheets
3. National Archives
4. His father was the Ven John Pratt Kempthorne, an archdeacon in the Diocese of Nelson; his eldest brother the Revd John Arnold Kempthorne, Vicar of Morrinsville, Waikato; and his fourth brother the Revd (Frederick) Maurice Kempthorne, Canon of Wellington
5. "School list of Nelson College 1856–1924: K–Mc". Shadows of Time. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
6. The Times, Friday, Mar 13, 1914; pg. 10; Issue 40470; col B University Intelligence
7. Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947
8. The Times, Thursday, Nov 30, 1922; pg. 12; Issue 43202; col E A new bishop

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