William Chadwick (bishop)

William Frank Percival Chadwick (1905–12 February 1991) was Bishop of Barking from 1959 to 1975. Born in 1905 he was educated at Wadham College, Oxford and studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford before a curacy in St Helen’s. He was then successively Vicar of Widnes, Crouch End and Barking. In 1959 he was appointed Suffragan Bishop of Barking in the Diocese of Chelmsford, where he remained until his retirement to Long Melford in 1975. He died on 12 February 1991.