Poole-Hughes's grave in the churchyard of Llandaff Cathedral. Picture taken in May 2020.

John Richard Worthington Poole-Hughes (8 August 1916 – 25 October 1988) was a Bishop of South-West Tanganyika and a Bishop of Llandaff.

Educated at Uppingham School and Hertford College, Oxford after wartime service with the Royal Artillery he was ordained in 1948. After a curacy at St Michael and All Angels, Aberystwyth[1] he served as a missionary in East Africa[2] rising to the rank of diocesan Bishop in Tanzania.[3] After serving as Assistant Bishop and as curate of Llantwit Major he was appointed to succeed Eryl Thomas as Bishop of Llandaff in 1975[4] and enthroned in the following year.

Notes

  1. ↑ Church web site
  2. ↑ Sinclair, J. B; Fenn, R. W. D (1992). Just the right man: a biography of the Rt Revd John Richard Worthington Poole-Hughes, 1916-1988. Kington, Herefordshire: Cadoc Books. ISBN 978-0-9516865-1-5.
  3. ↑ “Who was Who”1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  4. ↑ The Times, Wednesday, 10 December 1975; pg. 18; Issue 59574; col E Church news New Bishop of Llandaff
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