Name Paul Labilliere Role Bishop of Knaresborough | Died 1946 | |
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Education Harrow School, Merton College, Oxford | ||
Paul Fulcrand Delacour de Labillière was the second Bishop of Knaresborough from 1934 to 1937; and, subsequently, Dean of Westminster.
Born on 22 January 1879 into a legal family (his father was a Barrister of the Middle Temple) he was educated at Harrow and Merton College, Oxford (where he was later elected an Honorary Fellow, in 1945).
After taking Holy Orders he became Chaplain to the Bishop of Durham before missionary work in South Africa. He was successively Clerical Superintendent of the Liverpool Scripture Readers, Chaplain of Wadham College, Oxford, Lecturer at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and Vicar of Christ Church, High Harrogate before a 4-year stint as Suffragan Bishop of Knaresborough and Archdeacon of Leeds. A quiet but effective priest, his final professional appointment was as Dean of Westminster.
In 1909 he married Esther Elizabeth Morkel; they had a son and a daughter. de Labillière died on 28 April 1946.