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Name
  
Horace Tonks


Died
  
1959

Education
  
Queen Mary's Grammar School

Horace Norman Vincent Tonks (29 January 1891 – 25 November 1959) was an Anglican colonial bishop in the Windward Islands from 1936 until 1949.

He was born in Walsall on 29 January 1891 and educated at the town's Queen Mary's Grammar School and Lichfield Theological College. Ordained in 1918, after a Curacy in Fenton he was Priest in charge of Holy Cross, Airedale then Vicar of St Sampson with Holy Trinity in York. After that he was Archdeacon of Grenada for a short time before his appointment to the episcopate. On his return to England he was Rector of Leybourne and died on 25 November 1959.

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