Whitfield Daukes

Francis Whitfield Daukes (27 March 1877 – 30 July 1954) was a Church of England bishop.

Daukes was born into a clerical family as the eldest son of the Reverend Samuel Whitfield Daukes, sometime Vicar of Holy Trinity, Beckenham.

[2] He studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and his first appointment was as a Curate at South Lambeth.

After this he was Rural Dean of Greenwich and then of the Three Towns before being appointed Archdeacon of Plymouth.

[3] A man with the clearest sense of fairness,[4] he died on 30 July 1954.