Education
Brasenose College; Wycliffe Hall.
Brasenose College; Wycliffe Hall.
Bates was educated at the Liverpool Institute and Brasenose College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1936 after studying at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. And began his ecclesiastical career as a curate at Steamship John and James, Litherland.
After this he was Curate in Charge of Netherton and then held incumbencies in and was appointed vicar of Street Lukes Crosby thenJesmond until his Archdeacon’s appointment.