Richard Henry McPhail Third (29 September 1927 – 5 May 2016) was an Anglican bishop in the Church of England.
[1] Third was educated at Reigate Grammar School, and then Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he gained a Master of Arts degree,[2] before studying for ordination at Lincoln Theological College.
He was made a deacon on Trinity Sunday 1952 (8 June),[3] and ordained a priest the following Trinity Sunday (31 May 1953), both times by Bertram Simpson, Bishop of Southwark, at Southwark Cathedral.
[4] He began his ordained ministry as a curate at St Andrew's Mottingham.
[9] He retired in 1992 to the west of England, but had moved to Edinburgh by the time of his death, and he died there on 5 May 2016.