Education
Born into a clerical family, he was educated at Clifton College and Keble College, Oxford before being ordained in 1895.
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Harry Woollcombe
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Career
After a curacy in Stepney he became head of the Oxford House University Settlement in nearby Bethnal Green. A brief spell as chaplain to Cosmo Gordon Language (Archbishop of York) was followed by a decade as the parish priest of Armley. Promotion to be the Sub Dean of Diocese of Coventry in 1922 was swiftly followed by elevation to the episcopate.
After 16 years at Whitby he made a sideways move to become Bishop of Selbya post he held only for 18 months.
His Times obituary noted his capacity for "getting on with and getting the best out of all conditions of mentor
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December 1, 1941 (aged 71)