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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 Hillsborough parishes and Ranworth before being ordained to the episcopate. He died on 15 October 1995.

References

1. ^ "The Right Rev. Hugh Blackburne". The Independent. 18 October 1995. p. 16.
2. His father was a former Dean of Bristol > The Times, 4 January 1944, p7.C
3. "Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
5. Details within The National Archives

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