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Kenneth Evans (bishop of Dorking)

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Kenneth Dawson Evans was the second Suffragan Bishop of Dorking in Guildford, Surrey, England.[1]

Evans was born on 7 November 1915 and educated at Dulwich College and Clare College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1938, he began his career with a Curacy at St Mary Northampton[2] and was then Rector of Ockley before beginning a long ecclesiastical association with the Dorking area. [3] From 1949, he was initially Vicar, then Archdeacon before ascending to the Episcopate - a post he held from 1968 until 1986. In retirement, he continued to minister as an Assistant Bishop within the Guildford Diocese. He died on 29 June 2007. 

Church of England titles
Preceded by
Interregnum
Bishop of Dorking
1968 –1986
Succeeded by

References

  1. ^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 9780199540877
  2. ^ Church details
  3. ^ Crockford's clerical directory London, Church House 1975 ISBN 0108153674


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