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Joseph Hunkin | |
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Bishop of Truro | |
Diocese | Diocese of Truro |
In office | 1935–1950 |
Predecessor | Walter Frere |
Successor | Edward Morgan |
Orders | |
Ordination | 1914 (curate); |
Personal details | |
Born | Truro, Cornwall | 25 September 1887
Died | 28 October 1950 | (aged 63)
Nationality | British |
Denomination | Anglican |
Alma mater | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
Joseph Wellington Hunkin[2] OBE MC[3] (25 September 1887 – 28 October 1950) was the eighth Bishop of Truro from 1935 to 1950.[4][5]
He was born on 25 September 1887 at Truro and educated at Truro College,[6] the Leys School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Made deacon on St Matthew's Day 1913 (21 September)[7] and ordained priest at Michaelmas 1914 (27 September) — both times by Archibald Robertson, Bishop of Exeter, at Exeter Cathedral,[8] he began his career with a curacy at St Andrew's, Plymouth.[9] He was then a chaplain in the British Armed Forces during World War I[10] and after that Dean of Chapel at Caius (his undergraduate college). From 1927 until his ascension to the episcopate he was Archdeacon of Coventry[11] and an Honorary Chaplain to the King. He was consecrated a bishop by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral on Whit Tuesday 1935 (11 June).[12] In 1938 he volunteered to be chaplain to the British Legion Volunteer Police Force.[13]
He died on 28 October 1950.[14] He was a strong Evangelical and noted for his pastoral work.[15] He was the chair of a commission to produce a new English translation of the Bible from 1948 to 1950. Hunkin used as his pastoral staff a shepherd's crook of iron with a wooden shaft bound with a silver band inscribed "Un para, un bugel" (Cornish for "One flock, one shepherd") and enlisted in the Home Guard during the Second World War. A keen gardener, he was commemorated by a garden in the cathedral close and a shrub donated to every parish.[16] He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).
Among his published works,