Charles Aylen

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The Right Reverend                   
Charles A. W. Aylen
Bishop of St Helena
Church Anglican
Province Southern Africa
Diocese St Helena and Zululand
Personal details
Born 1882
Died 15 August 1972(1972-08-15)

Charles Arthur William Aylen (1882–15 August 1972) was an Anglican bishop.[1] Aylen was born in Wick, Scotland.[2]

Education

He was educated at Bradfield College and Keble College, Oxford.[3][4]

Career

He was ordained in 1906 and his first post was a curacy in Henley on Thames.[5]

He was vicar of Shiplake from 1913 to 1925. During World War I he was a Royal Navy chaplain.[6]

In 1926 he went to Empangeni in the Diocese of Zululand as a missionary priest. He was the bishop of Zululand from 1930 to 1935. While he was bishop of Zululand he married Elizabeth Hills.[7] He was translated to the Diocese of St Helena and was bishop there from 1935 to 1939.[8]

He was vicar of Aston Tirrold from 1939 to 1945 and Flore from 1945 to 1958 and rural dean of Weedon from 1947 to 1951.

Family

He married Elisabeth Margaret Anna Hills in 1932 and they had two sons and one daughter.

Notes

  1. Obituary: C.A.W. Aylen The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Aug 16, 1972; pg. 12; Issue 58554
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  3. AYLEN, Charles Arthur William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920 – 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 26 May 2012
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  5. Crockford's Clerical Directory London, OUP, 1948
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  8. Diocesan web site

External links

Anglican Church of Southern Africa titles
Preceded by Bishop of Zululand
1930–1935
Succeeded by
Albert Lee
Preceded by Bishop of St Helena
1935–1939
Succeeded by
Gilbert Turner


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