Horace Tonks

Horace Norman Vincent Tonks (29 January 1891 – 25 November 1959) was an Anglican colonial bishop[1] in the Windward Islands from 1936[2] until 1949.

He was born in Walsall, England,[3] on 29 January 1891 to Henry and Emily Tonks[4] and educated at the town's Queen Mary's Grammar School and Lichfield Theological College.

[5] Ordained in 1918[6] after a curacy in Fenton, he was priest in charge of Holy Cross, Airedale,[7] then from 1926 to 1935 the vicar of Saint Sampson with Holy Trinity in York.

[8] After that he was Archdeacon of Grenada for a brief period in 1935 and 1936 before his appointment to the episcopate in the Windward Islands.

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