John Poole-Hughes

He was born in Carmarthenshire, Wales to Canon W. W. Poole-Hughes and his wife,[1] and was educated at Uppingham School and Hertford College, Oxford.

On graduation, he joined the Royal Artillery and fought in World War II; he was taken prisoner at Mersa Matruh in Egypt, but escaped to return to his unit.

After a curacy at St Michael and All Angels, Aberystwyth[2] he served as a missionary in East Africa[3] rising to the rank of diocesan Bishop in Tanzania.

He contributed to the publication of Escape an episode in the life of John Richard Worthington Poole-Hughes, Bishop of South West Tanganyika, 1962-1974.

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