John Poole-Hughes

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File:Grave of John Poole-Hughes in Llandaff Cathedral churchyard, May 2020.jpg
Poole-Hughes's grave in the churchyard of Llandaff Cathedral. Picture taken in May 2020.

John Richard Worthington Poole-Hughes (8 August 1916 – 25 October 1988) was a Bishop of South-West Tanganyika and a Bishop of Llandaff.

He was born in Carmarthenshire, Wales to Canon W. W. Poole-Hughes and his wife,[1] and was educated at Uppingham School and Hertford College, Oxford. On graduation, he joined the Royal Artillery and fought in World War II; he was taken prisoner at Mersa Matruh in Egypt, but escaped to return to his unit.[1]

After the war he studied at Wells Theological College and was ordained in 1948. After a curacy at St Michael and All Angels, Aberystwyth[2] he served as a missionary in East Africa[3] rising to the rank of diocesan Bishop in Tanzania.[4] After serving as Assistant Bishop and as curate of Llantwit Major he was appointed to succeed Eryl Thomas as Bishop of Llandaff in 1975[5] and enthroned in the following year.

He contributed to the publication of Escape an episode in the life of John Richard Worthington Poole-Hughes, Bishop of South West Tanganyika, 1962-1974.[6]

His diaries and letters are held at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.[7]

He died in 1988; he left no wife or children.[1]

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