Dudley Narborough


Frederick Dudley Vaughan Narborough was an eminent Anglican bishop in the mid-twentieth century.
Educated at Norwich School and Worcester College, Oxford; he was deaconed at Michaelmastide 1921 and priested the next Michaelmas — both times by Hubert Burge, Bishop of Oxford, at Christ Church [Cathedral, Oxford], and began his ecclesiastical career as Chaplain at his old college. After this he was Resident Chaplain to Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury; a Canon Residentiary at Bristol Cathedral; and then Provost of Southwark Cathedral before a 20-year spell as Bishop of Colchester. Until 1959, he was also Archdeacon of Colchester, after then he was also an honorary canon of Chelmsford Cathedral. He was consecrated a bishop on All Saints' Day 1946 at Westminster Abbey;