Oliver Stratford Tomkins (9 June 1908 – 29 October 1992) was an Anglican Bishop of Bristol in the third quarter of the 20th century.
Born into an ecclesiastical family – his father was Leopold Charles Fellows Tomkins (a priest)[1] – Tomkins was educated at Trent College and Christ's College, Cambridge.
He was made a deacon on Michaelmas 1935 (29 September)[2] and ordained a priest the Michaelmas following (20 September 1936) — both times by Henry Wilson, Bishop of Chelmsford, at Chelmsford Cathedral,[3] after which he was assistant curate of St Mary, Prittlewell.
Tomkins was appointed to the episcopate in 1959 as the Bishop of Bristol[5] and consecrated a bishop on 6 January 1959, by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey;[6] a post he held for 16 years until his retirement on 1 October 1975.
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