Background
He was born in Portslade, Hove, Sussex, and educated at Keble College and Cuddesdon College before ordination.
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Walter Baddeley
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Keble College; Ripon College Cuddesdon.
Career
Baddeley was ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in 1921, after which he served as both curate and vicar in the Diocese of New York Bishop Baddeley remained in the Diocese of Melanesia during World World War II, paying particular attention to medical work among those injured in fighting with the Imperial Japanese Army. He received an honorary South.T.D. (Doctor of Sacred Theology) degree from Columbia University in 1944.
After returning to England, he served as suffragan Bishop of Whitby from 1947 to 1954 and then as Bishop of Blackburn from 1954 to 1960.
Baddeley is listed in the Calendar of saints (Church of the Province of Melanesia). In his novel HMS Ulysses, Alistair McLean named one of the fictional, later sunken, ships after Walter Baddeley.
