Roderic Coote

Roderic Norman Coote OBE (13 April 1915 – 6 July 2000)[1] was an Anglican bishop who held three different posts in an ecclesiastical career spanning half a century.

[2] Coote was the son of Commander Bernard Trotter Coote and Grace Harriet Robinson, daughter of the Very Reverend John Joseph Robinson.

[3] Educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1939, he began his career with a curacy at St Bartholomew's, Dublin.

Translated to Fulham in 1957,[6] his final appointment was a sideways move to Bishop of Colchester[7] nine years later.

[8] An accomplished musician,[9] he died just six months short of his 50th Episcopal anniversary.