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Thomas Richard Hare (29 August 1922 – 18 July 2010) was the Suffragan Bishop of Pontefract from 1971 until 1992.

Life

He was born on 29 August 1922 and educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Oxford. After World War II service with the RAF he was ordained in 1950 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Haltwhistle. Following this he was chaplain to the Bishop of Manchester and then a canon residentiary at Carlisle Cathedral. Appointed Archdeacon of Westmorland and Furness in 1965, he was appointed to the episcopate seven years later and retired in 1992.

References

1. "Who's Who 1992 "(London, A & C Black ISBN 0-7136-3514-2)
2. Obituary
3. Bishops of the Wakefield diocese Archived 2007-07-06 at the Wayback Machine
4. The Daily Telegraph Issue 48,299 dated Tuesday 14 September 2010 Obituaries, p29
5. "Crockford's clerical directory, 1995" (Lambeth, Church House ISBN 0-7151-8088-6)
6. "Debrett's People of Today 1992" (London, Debrett's) (ISBN 1-870520-09-2)

• Archdeacons of Westmorland and Furness
• 20th-century Church of England bishops
• Bishops of Pontefract
• People educated at Marlborough College
• Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
• Royal Air Force personnel of World War II
• 1922 births
• 2010 deaths