Walter Godfrey Whittingham (5 October 1861 – 17 June 1941) was a Church of England bishop.

Education

Whittingham was educated at the City of London School and Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Walter Whittingham

Career

Ordained in 1886, he began his career with curacies at St Margaret's Church, Leicester and St Thomas the Apostle's, South Wigston. After this he held incumbencies at Weedon, Buckinghamshire, Knighton, Leicestershire and Glaston, Rutland. He was Archdeacon of Oakham from 1918 to 1923 when he was ordained to the episcopate as the third Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, a post he held for 17 years. He was consecrated bishop at Westminster Abbey on 1 November 1923, by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury;

Walter Whittingham

Death

Whittingham died on 17 June 1941.

Walter Whittingham

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1861 births

People educated at the City of London School

Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge

Archdeacons of Oakham

20th-century Church of England bishops

Bishops of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich

1941 deaths