Charles Claxton (bishop)

Charles Robert Claxton (16 November 1903 – 7 March 1992) was the fourth Suffragan Bishop of Warrington[1] later translated to the See of Blackburn.[2]

Claxton was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge[3] He was ordained in 1928 and began his ordained ministry with London curacies before becoming Vicar of Holy Trinity, Bristol in 1933. He was then chaplain to the Bishop of Bristol before becoming the Suffragan Bishop of Warrington and then the diocesan Bishop of Blackburn. During his long retirement he was an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Exeter. He died in Cheshire.

References
  1. The Times, 2 April 1946; pg. 6; Issue 50416; col G, Ecclesiastical News Consecration of the Bishop of Warrington
  2. The Times, 21 June 1960; pg. 12; Issue 54803; col D, Two New Bishops Nominated Bath And Wells And Blackburn
  3. “Who was Who” 1897-1990, London, A & C Black, 1991, ISBN 0-7136-3457-X

4. ‘Memories of Bishop Charles Robert Claxton’ as edited by his grandson, Rev Simon Christopher Tillotson, 1996 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lbpYKwnckPmIF1tRlx_TtKMkQ9m501aQ/view?usp=sharing

Religious titles
Preceded by
Herbert Gresford Jones		 Bishop of Warrington
1946–1960		 Succeeded by
Laurie Brown
Preceded by
Walter Baddeley		 Bishop of Blackburn
1960–1971		 Succeeded by
Robert Martineau


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