Person    | Male  Born 8/5/1921  Died 6/1/2010

Rt. Rev. Graham Douglas Leonard, KCVO, Bishop of London

Categories: Armed Forces, Religion

Graham Douglas Leonard was born on 8 May 1921, the son of Douglas Leonard (1883-1973) and Emily Mabel Leonard née Cheshire (1885-1962). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1921 in the Greenwich registration district.

In the 1939 England and Wales Register he was shown at Monkton Combe Senior School, Church Lane, Monkton Combe, Bath, Somerset. He married Vivien Priscilla Swann (1922-2013), the marriage being registered in the 1st quarter of 1943 in the Cambridge registration district, Cambridgeshire and they had two children: Mark M. Leonard whose birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1947 and James V. Leonard whose birth was registered in 4th quarter of 1944 both in the Cambridge registration district.

Our Picture Source, his Wikipedia page and his obituary in The Guardian newspaper gives much information about this man including his military service during World War Two, that he was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order and that he was the suffragan Bishop of Willesden (1964-1973), the diocesan Bishop of Truro (1973-1981) and the Bishop of London (1981-1991).

Electoral registers in 2005 show him listed at 25 Woodlands Road, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 2DR. He died, aged 88 years, on 6 January 2010 in Witney, Oxfordshire.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Rt. Rev. Graham Douglas Leonard, KCVO, Bishop of London

Creations i

Communist victims

The plinth for this 12-headed sculpture is a 4-sided pillar set at the centre...

Read More

Other Subjects

National Fire Service / NFS

National Fire Service / NFS

Nationwide fire service created during WW2 from the amalgamation of the wartime Auxiliary Fire Service and the many local authority fire brigades.  After the war it was split into brigades again un...

Group, Armed Forces

1 memorial
V. A. Frost

V. A. Frost

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Air Marshal Lord Hugh Montague Trenchard

Air Marshal Lord Hugh Montague Trenchard

Founder of the Royal Air Force.  Born Somerset.  Aged 20 joined the Second Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers and served in India, in the Boer War and in Nigeria.  Learnt to fly in 1912 and ser...

Person, Armed Forces, India, Nigeria, South Africa

1 memorial
Royal Air Force Gang Show Association

Royal Air Force Gang Show Association

The name of this organisation sometimes has "Shows" rather than "Show".

Group, Armed Forces, Aviation, Theatre

2 memorials
W. J. D. Townsend

W. J. D. Townsend

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial