Thomas Alfred Chapman (1867–1949[1]) was an Anglican bishop[2] in the first half of the twentieth century.
[3] Educated at Exeter College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1890[4] and began his ecclesiastical career as a Curate at Charles Church, Plymouth.
After this he was Vicar of St John, Carlisle[5] and then Rural Dean of East Bristol.
[6] In 1899 he returned to Charles[7] to be Rural Dean of the Three Towns and then a decade later became Rural Dean of St Peter's, Bolton[8] before an 11-year spell as Bishop of Colchester.
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