Colin Docker

Ivor Colin Docker (known as Colin;[1][2] 3 December 1925 – 4 November 2014) was the 2nd Anglican Bishop of Horsham from 1975[3] until 1991 and the first area bishop from the area scheme's institution in 1984.

[4] Educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, Birmingham University (whence he gained a Master of Arts {MA}) and St Catherine's Society, Oxford,[5] he studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Normanton, Yorkshire.

[6] From 1954 he was Area Secretary of the CMS[7] and, after spells as Vicar of Midhurst and Seaford he was appointed Rural Dean of Eastbourne in 1971.

[8] A keen photographer, he retired to Bovey Tracey in 1991, where he continued to serve the church as an honorary assistant bishop within the Diocese of Exeter.

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