John Watts Ditchfield
Bishop of Chelmsford; British Anglican bishop
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Edwin Watts-Ditchfield was an eminent 20th century Anglican priest and distinguished author. Educated at the Victoria University of Manchester and ordained in 1891, he began his career with a curacy at St Peter Highgate after which he was Vicar of St James-the-Less, Bethnal Green. Here, he made a name for himself, particularly with the development of the Church of England's Men's Society. He believed that the contemporary view of the Church of England was that it was for women and children, and he succeeded in attracting vast numbers of men to his church whose families followed. A gifted fund-raiser, he provided a medical service and a parish centre among other facilities for his poor parishioners. These activities brought him to the attention of not only the hierarchy but also of leading politicians. He was first considered for a bishopric when Lichfield became vacant in 1913, but he was not recommended by the Archbishop of Canterbury who wrote ‘Watts-Ditchfield with all his gifts is on a distinctly low plane. Not a graduate or a man of any mental calibre ... though a real power with working man and a very nice fellow’. Nevertheless, when the diocese of Chelmsford was created the following year, Watts-Ditchfield was appointed as its first bishop.
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