The Rt Rev. Roy Walter Frederick Cowdry,[1] AKC was Suffragan Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town[2] and Archdeacon of Cape Town from 1958 to 1964.[3]

Cowdry was educated at King's College London and ordained in 1942.[4] After curacies in Perivale and Ealing he became Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Cape Town.

In 1964 he became Rector of St Cuthbert, Port Elizabeth;[5] and in 1970 of St Phillip in the same city.[6]

He died on the 6th of November 1984, and his ashes were interred in the St Cuthbert's Garden of Remembrance.

Notes

  1. ↑ London Gazette
  2. ↑ April 18, 1962 Alton Evening Telegraph; Alton, Illinois p15
  3. ↑ 'COWDRY, Rt. Rev Roy Walter Frederick', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 28 Oct 2015
  4. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 p216 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  5. ↑ Church web site
  6. ↑ Anglican Diocese of Port Elizabeth


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