Ian Cundy
Ian Patrick Martyn Cundy was a Church of England cleric who served successively as area Bishop of Lewes and Bishop of Peterborough.
Background
Born in Sherborne, Dorset, on 23 April 1945, he was the son of Henry Martyn Cundy and his wife Kathleen Ethel Hemmings. He was educated at Monkton Combe School in Somerset and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and theology in 1967, and obtained a Master of Arts. Cundy made his general ordination exam in Tyndale Hall, Trinity College, Bristol in 1969.Career
Cundy was made a deacon at Michaelmas 1969, by Trevor Huddleston, Bishop of Stepney, at All Saints Church, Benhilton, and ordained a priest the Michaelmas following, by Mervyn Stockwood, Bishop of Southwark, at Southwark Cathedral; he served first as assistant curate of Christ Church, New Malden until 1973 and subsequently lecturer and chaplain of Oak Hill Theological College in Southgate, London until 1977. A year later, he was nominated team rector in Mortlake and East Sheen, a post he held until 1983. Thereafter Cundy became warden of Cranmer Hall, Durham until 1992, when he was appointed area Bishop of Lewes in the Diocese of Chichester. He was consecrated a bishop on 3 July 1992 by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey, He was enthroned as the 37th Bishop of Peterborough in 1996, where he remained until his death in May 2009.Cundy served as a member of the board of governors of Monkton Combe School from 1986 to 1995.