Joseph Hunkin (bishop)

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Joseph Hunkin
Bishop of Truro
DioceseDiocese of Truro
In office1935–1950
PredecessorWalter Frere
SuccessorEdward Morgan
Orders
Ordination1914 (curate);
Personal details
Born(1887-09-25)25 September 1887
Truro, Cornwall
Died28 October 1950(1950-10-28) (aged 63)
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglican
Alma materGonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Memorial in Truro Cathedral
Arms of Hunkin: Argent, a mascle sable over all a fess of the last[1]

Joseph Wellington Hunkin[2] OBE MC[3] (25 September 1887 – 28 October 1950) was the eighth Bishop of Truro from 1935 to 1950.[4][5]

He was born on 25 September 1887 at Truro and educated at Truro College,[6] the Leys School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Made deacon on St Matthew's Day 1913 (21 September)[7] and ordained priest at Michaelmas 1914 (27 September) — both times by Archibald Robertson, Bishop of Exeter, at Exeter Cathedral,[8] he began his career with a curacy at St Andrew's, Plymouth.[9] He was then a chaplain in the British Armed Forces during World War I[10] and after that Dean of Chapel at Caius (his undergraduate college). From 1927 until his ascension to the episcopate he was Archdeacon of Coventry[11] and an Honorary Chaplain to the King. He was consecrated a bishop by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral on Whit Tuesday 1935 (11 June).[12] In 1938 he volunteered to be chaplain to the British Legion Volunteer Police Force.[13]

He died on 28 October 1950.[14] He was a strong Evangelical and noted for his pastoral work.[15] He was the chair of a commission to produce a new English translation of the Bible from 1948 to 1950. Hunkin used as his pastoral staff a shepherd's crook of iron with a wooden shaft bound with a silver band inscribed "Un para, un bugel" (Cornish for "One flock, one shepherd") and enlisted in the Home Guard during the Second World War. A keen gardener, he was commemorated by a garden in the cathedral close and a shrub donated to every parish.[16] He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).

Writings[edit]

Among his published works,

  • Is it Reasonable to Believe? (1935) London: Hodder & Stoughton.
  • From a Cornish Bishop's Garden (2001), Penzance: Alison Hodge – a collection of newspaper articles from The Guardian, (an Anglican weekly newspaper) edited and introduced by Douglas Pett.[17]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.493
  2. ^ Portraits of Joseph Hunkin at the National Portrait Gallery, London Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ London Gazette
  4. ^ Bishop of Truro: Archdeacon Hunkin Appointed The Times Monday, 1 April 1935; p. 14; Issue 47027; col F
  5. ^ "Hunkin, Joseph Wellington". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ^ Wood, Joanna (2005), High on the Hill, pp. 184–185. Blue Hill Publishing, ISBN 0-9549005-1-0.
  7. ^ "Ordinations". Church Times. No. 2644. 26 September 1913. p. 400. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 4 December 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
  8. ^ "Ordinations". Church Times. No. 2697. 2 October 1914. p. 350. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 4 December 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
  9. ^ Church web-site
  10. ^ Dunstan, A. & Peart-Binns, J. S. (1977) Cornish Bishop. London: Epworth ISBN 0716202824/ ISBN 978-0-7162-0282-0
  11. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940–41 Oxford, OUP,1941
  12. ^ "Consecration of the Bishops of Truro and Bedford". Church Times. No. 3777. 14 June 1935. p. 711. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 4 December 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
  13. ^ "British Legion volunteers". The Times. 7 October 1938. p. 8.
  14. ^ Bishop of Truro: a Great Pastoral Leader The Times Monday, 30 October 1950; p. 6; Issue 51835; col E
  15. ^ "Joseph Hunkin in New York". Time Inc. 14 February 1938. Archived from the original on 26 August 2010. Retrieved 20 March 2009.
  16. ^ Brown, H. Miles (1976) A Century for Cornwall. Truro: Blackford; pp. 102–116
  17. ^ Hunkin, J. W. "From a Cornish bishop's garden". Copac. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
Church of England titles
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