Lucian Usher-Wilson
Lucian Charles Usher-Wilson CBE (10 January 1903 – 28 August 1984) was a British Anglican bishop who served in Uganda during the mid-20th century and afterwards in England.[1]
Usher-Wilson was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford. He was ordained deacon in 1927 and priest in 1939.[2] He was a teacher at King's College, Budo from 1927 to 1933; and a CMS missionary until his appointment to succeed Arthur Kitching as diocesan Bishop on the Upper Nile in 1936.[3] He was consecrated as a bishop on 28 October 1936, at St Paul's Cathedral by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury.[4]
Under his initiative, the Diocese on the Upper Nile was split in 1961 and Usher-Wilson remained as diocesan bishop of one part, afterwards called the Diocese of Mbale (so he became the first Bishop of Mbale);[5] he resigned that See in 1964[6] and became Vicar of Churt and an Assistant Bishop of Guildford.[1] On his retirement to Westbury-on-Trym in 1972, he was the longest-serving bishop at the time in any Anglican church; he became an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Bristol.[7] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Usher-Wilson, Lucian Charles". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 24 February 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1963/4 p813: London; OUP; 1963
- ^ "Church News. Personal". Church Times. No. 3827. 29 May 1936. p. 665. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 25 February 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ "St. Paul's Cathedral. Two Overseas Bishops Consecrated". Church Times. No. 3849. 30 October 1936. p. 488. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 9 January 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ 'Bishop Lucian Usher-Wilson' The Times (London, England) Friday, 31 August 1984 Issue 61924p. p12 Obituaries
- ^ "Guildford post for Bishop of Mbale". Church Times. No. 5275. 20 March 1964. p. 10. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 11 January 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ "in memoriam. Bishop Usher-Wilson". Church Times. No. 6343. 7 September 1984. p. 4. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 25 February 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.