Robert Martineau

Robert Arnold Schürhoff Martineau (22 August 1913 – 28 June 1999) was a British bishop who was the first Bishop of Huntingdon and who was later translated to Blackburn.

This article is about the Church of England bishop. For the English painter, see Robert Braithwaite Martineau.

Born in Birmingham and educated at King Edward's School[1] and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1938. His first post was as a curate at Melksham[2] after which he was a World War II chaplain in the RAFVR.

When peace returned he became Vicar of Ovenden, Halifax, and then Allerton, Merseyside,[3] before his ordination to the episcopate.[4]

He died in Denbigh, Clwyd.

References
  1. Who Was Who 1897–2007. London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  2. Independent Obituary
  3. Crockfords,(London, Church House 1975) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
  4. Bishop Of Huntingdon, The Times, 18 October 1965; pg. 12; Issue 56451; col G
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Inaugural appointment		 Bishop of Huntingdon
1965 – 1972		 Succeeded by
Eric St Quintin Wall
Preceded by
Charles Robert Claxton		 Bishop of Blackburn
1972 – 1981		 Succeeded by
David Stewart Cross


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