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Name
  
John Aglionby

Died
  
May 15, 1963

Role
  
Chaplain

Education
  
Westminster School

The Rt Rev John Orfeur Aglionby, DD, MC (16 March 1884 – 15 May 1963) was an Anglican bishop in Africa in the second quarter of the 20th century.

Educated at Westminster and The Queen's College, Oxford, Aglionby was ordained in 1911 and began his career with a Curacy at Holy Trinity, South Shields. A Chaplain to the Forces during World War I, when peace returned he was Vicar of Monkwearmouth until 1924 when he became the 3rd Bishop of Accra. He retired to Orpington in 1951.

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