Neville Welch

William Neville Welch (30 April 1906 – 3 February 1999) was the first Bishop of Bradwell in Essex from 1968 to 1973.

[1] Born on 30 April 1906, he was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham and Keble College, Oxford[2] and studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford before a curacy in Kidderminster.

From 1934, he was Secretary to the Mission to Seamen.

Following this he was Vicar of Grays then Ilford; Rural Dean of Barking; and finally, before his elevation to the episcopate, Archdeacon of Southend.

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