Joseph Hunkin
The Rt Rev Joseph Wellington Hunkin,[1] OBE, MC,[2] DD was the eighth Bishop of Truro from 1935 to 1950.[3][4]
He was born on 25 September 1887 at Truro and educated at Truro College,[5] the Leys School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1914, he began his career with a curacy at St Andrew’s, Plymouth.[6] He was then a Chaplain in the British Armed Forces during World War I [7] and after that Dean of his old college. From 1927 until his ascension to the Episcopate he was Archdeacon of Coventry[8] and an Honorary Chaplain to the King. In 1938 he volunteered to be chaplain to the British Legion Volunteer Police Force.[9]
He died on 28 October 1950.[10] He was a strong Evangelical and noted for his pastoral work.[11] He was the chair of a commission to produce a new English translation of the Bible from 1948 to 1950. Hunkin used as his pastoral staff a shepherd's crook of iron with a wooden shaft bound with a silver band inscribed "Un para, un bugel" (Cornish for "One flock, one shepherd") and humbly enlisted in the Home Guard during World War II. A keen gardener, he was commemorated by a garden in the cathedral close and a shrub donated to every parish.[12]
Writings
Among his published works was Is it Reasonable to Believe?; London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1935. In 2001 a collection of newspaper articles by him was published, edited by the Revd. Douglas Pett: From a Cornish Bishop's Garden; edited with an introduction by Douglas Ellory Pett. 2001. Penzance: Alison Hodge[13]
Notes
- ↑ NPG details
- ↑ London Gazette
- ↑ Bishop of Truro: Archdeacon Hunkin Appointed The Times Monday, 1 April 1935; p. 14; Issue 47027; col F
- ↑ “Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
- ↑ Wood, Joanna (2005), High on the Hill, pp. 184–185. Blue Hill Publishing, ISBN 0-9549005-1-0.
- ↑ Church web-site
- ↑ Dunstan, A. & Peart-Binns, J. S. (1977) Cornish Bishop. London: Epworth ISBN 0716202824/ ISBN 978-0-7162-0282-0
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940–41 Oxford, OUP,1941
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- ↑ Bishop of Truro: a Great Pastoral Leader The Times Monday, 30 October 1950; p. 6; Issue 51835; col E
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- ↑ Brown, H. Miles (1976) A Century for Cornwall. Truro: Blackford; pp. 102–116
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| Preceded by | Bishop of Truro 1935–1950 |
Succeeded by Edmund Robert Morgan |
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- Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
- Recipients of the Military Cross
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- Anglican deans
- Archdeacons of Coventry
- Honorary Chaplains to the Queen
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- 1950 deaths
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