Richard Heywood (bishop)

The Rt Rev Richard Stanley Heywood (1867–1955) was an Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century.^[1][2]

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He was born on 27 October 1867, educated at Windlesham House School, Wellington College and Trinity College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1892.^[3][4][5] After a curacy in Walcot, Bath,^[6] he was Principal of the CMS Divinity School, Poona^[7] and then held a similar post in Bombay. In 1918 he became Bishop of Mombasa. He retired to Kenilworth in 1936 and was an Assistant Bishop of Coventry until 1952.^[8] He died on 16 December 1955.^[9]