Roger Wilson (bishop)

Roger Plumpton Wilson (3 August 1905 – 1 March 2002) was Bishop of Wakefield and later Chichester in the mid 20th century.

Born into an ecclesiastical family, he was educated at Winchester College and Keble College, Oxford, and ordained in 1936. After curacies at St Paul’s, Princes Park, Liverpool, and St John's, Smith Square, he was vicar of South Shore, Blackpool, and archdeacon of Nottingham before his elevation to the episcopate.

He taught classics at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown, South Africa for a period. He was Clerk of the Closet from 1963 to 1975.