Walter Whittingham

Walter Godfrey Whittingham was a Church of England bishop.

Education

Whittingham was educated at the City of [London School] and Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Career

in 1886, Whittingham began his career with curacies at St Margaret's Church, Leicester and St Thomas the Apostle's, South Wigston. He subsequently held incumbencies at Weedon, Buckinghamshire, Knighton, Leicestershire and Glaston, Rutland. He was Archdeacon of Oakham from 1918 to 1923 when he was ordained to the episcopate as the third Bishop of [St Edmundsbury and Ipswich], a post he held for 17 years. He was consecrated bishop at Westminster Abbey on 1 November 1923, by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury;

Death

Whittingham died on 17 June 1941.