Richard Cartwright (bishop)

Richard Fox Cartwright (10 November 1913 – 10 April 2009) was the Anglican Bishop of Plymouth from 1972 to 1982.[1][2]

Cartwright was born [3] son of George Frederick Cartwright (1874–1938), M.A., vicar of Plumstead from 1928 to 1938, Organising Secretary of the White Cross League from 1910 to 1915;[4][5] he was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Pembroke College, Cambridge. After he was deaconed (during Advent 1936 {19 December})[6] and priested (the following Advent {18 December 1937}) — both times by Richard Parsons, Bishop of Southwark, at Southwark Cathedral,[7] he was a curate at St Anselm's Kennington Cross[8] and then priest in charge of Lower Kingswood. He was then Vicar of Surbiton, Redcliffe, Bristol[9] and Silverton, Devon before being ordained to the episcopate. He was consecrated on by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 29 September 1972 at Westminster Abbey;[10] in retirement he was an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Truro.[11]

He married Rosemary Magdalen (1919-2002), daughter of Lloyd's member Francis Evelyn Bray, of Woking,[12] in 1947, and had a son and three daughters.[13] A daughter, Jane, married Roger Cunliffe Turner, son of Sir (Ronald) Mark Cunliffe Turner (1906-1980), chairman of BHS; their son is the musician Frank Turner.[14][15]