Joseph Wellington Hunkin[2] OBE MC[3] (25 September 1887 – 28 October 1950) was the eighth Bishop of Truro from 1935 to 1950.

Made deacon on St Matthew's Day 1913 (21 September)[7] and ordained priest at Michaelmas 1914 (27 September) — both times by Archibald Robertson, Bishop of Exeter, at Exeter Cathedral,[8] he began his career with a curacy at St Andrew's, Plymouth.

[9] He was then a chaplain in the British Armed Forces during World War I[10] and after that Dean of Chapel at Caius (his undergraduate college).

He was consecrated a bishop by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral on Whit Tuesday 1935 (11 June).

Hunkin used as his pastoral staff a shepherd's crook of iron with a wooden shaft bound with a silver band inscribed "Un para, un bugel" (Cornish for "One flock, one shepherd") and enlisted in the Home Guard during the Second World War.