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Richard Fox Cartwright (10 November 1913 – 10 April 2009) was the Anglican Bishop of Plymouth from 1972 to 1982.

Cartwright was born son of George Frederick Cartwright (1874–1938), M.A., vicar of Plumstead from 1928 to 1938, Organising Secretary of the White Cross League from 1910 to 1915; he was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Pembroke College, Cambridge. After he was deaconed (during Advent 1936 {19 December}) and priested (the following Advent {18 December 1937}) — both times by Richard Parsons, Bishop of Southwark, at Southwark Cathedral, he was a curate at St Anselm's Kennington Cross and then priest in charge of Lower Kingswood. He was then Vicar of Surbiton, Redcliffe, Bristol and Silverton, Devon before being ordained to the episcopate. He was consecrated on by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 29 September 1972 at Westminster Abbey; in retirement he was an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Truro.

He married Rosemary Magdalen (1919-2002), daughter of Lloyd's member Francis Evelyn Bray, of Woking, in 1947, and had a son and three daughters. A daughter, Jane, married Miranda (then Roger) Cunliffe Turner, son of Sir (Ronald) Mark Cunliffe Turner (1906-1980), chairman of BHS; their son is the musician Frank Turner.

Notes

1. "New Bishop of Plymouth", The Times, 11 May 1972, p. 18.
2. Crockford's Online- accessed 27 December 2008
3. Who’s Who 2008 (London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
4. Alumni Cantabrigienses, Volume 2: From 1752 to 1900, Part 1: Abbey-Challis, ed. John Venn, J. A. Venn, Cambridge University Press, 2011, p. 531
5. "The Right Rev Richard Cartwright: Bishop of Plymouth".
6. "Advent ordinations". Church Times. No. 3857. 24 December 1936. p. 748. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 9 October 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
7. "Advent ordinations". Church Times. No. 3909. 23 December 1937. p. 727. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 9 October 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
8. Church details (Archived)
9. The Times, 4 October 1951, p. 8, "Ecclesiastical News"
10. "picture caption". Church Times. No. 5721. 6 October 1972. p. 3. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 9 October 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
11. The Times, 29 July 1982, p. 12, "Church news Appointments"
12. Girton College Register: 1869-1946, privately printed for Girton College, 1948, p. 537
13. "Obituary: THE RT REVD RICHARD CARTWRIGHT".
14. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage 2003, vol. 3, p. 4027
15. "The Right Rev Richard Cartwright: Bishop of Plymouth".

External links

• Obituary in the Church Times

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