William Somers Llewellyn (16 August 1907 – 22 July 2001) was the inaugural bishop of Lynn from 1963[1] until 1972.
[2] Educated at Eton and Balliol,[3] he was deaconed on Trinity Sunday 1935 (16 June)[4] and priest the next Trinity Sunday (7 June 1937) – both times by Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London at St Paul's Cathedral[5] – and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Chiswick.
[6] From 1940 until 1946 he was a chaplain to the Forces and then vicar of Tetbury,[7] from when on he was to have a deep affinity with the area.
[8] Additionally rural dean of the area from 1955, in 1961 he was appointed Archdeacon of Lynn and suffragan bishop a year later: he was consecrated a bishop by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 18 October 1963 at Westminster Abbey.
[9] On retirement he continued to serve the church as an assistant bishop within the Diocese of Gloucester.