Freddy Temple

Frederick Stephen "Freddy" Temple (24 November 1916 – 26 November 2000)[1] was the Suffragan Bishop of Malmesbury in the Diocese of Bristol from 1973 until 1983.

[2] He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford.

He was ordained in 1948[3] and was a curate in Newark and later Rector of St Agnes' Longsight[4] and Dean of Hong Kong.

He returned to England to be senior chaplain to Geoffrey Fisher, then Archbishop of Canterbury.

[5] He was then Vicar of St Mary’s Portsea, Portsmouth, the largest parish in the city, and then Archdeacon of Malmesbury until his ordination to the episcopate.