Eric Knell

Eric Henry Knell (1 April 1903[1] – January 1987)[2] was the Bishop of Reading from 1954 until 1972.

[3] Knell was educated at Trinity College, Oxford and ordained in 1929.

[4] Beginning his ministry with a curacy at St Barnabas, Southfields[5] he was successively: Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Lincoln; Priest in charge of the Trinity College, Oxford, Mission in Stratford; Vicar of Emmanuel, Forest Gate, then Christ Church, Reading;[6] and finally, before his appointment to the episcopate, Archdeacon of Berkshire.

[7] In 1972 he retired to Lingfield, Surrey and continued to serve the Church as an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese of Oxford.

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