Hugh Blackburne

Not to be confused with Hugh Blackburn.

Hugh Charles Blackburne was the Bishop of Thetford from 1977 until 1981.^[1]

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Blackburne was born into an ecclesiastical family^[2] on 4 June 1912 and educated at Marlborough^[3] and Clare College, Cambridge before beginning his ordained ministry as a curate in Almondbury.^[4] He was then a chaplain in the Forces and then held incumbencies at Milton, Hampshire, Harrow, the Hillsborough parishes^[5] and Ranworth before being ordained to the episcopate. He died on 15 October 1995.^[1]