John Vincent (bishop), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Anglican Bishop of Damaraland
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About John Vincent (bishop)
- The Rt Rev John Dacre Vincent MA MC and bar (1 January 1894 – 19 May 1960) was the Bishop of Damaraland from 1952 to 1960.He was born on 1 January 1894, educated at Marlborough and St John's College, Oxford, and ordained in 1921 after World War I service with the Devonshire Regiment.
- He began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Gillingham, Dorset and was then a Minor Canon at Bloemfontein Cathedral.
- After this he was Vicar of Longbridge Deverill in Wiltshire until 1937 when he returned to Bloemfontein as its Archdeacon, a position he held until his elevation to the Episcopate.
- He died on 19 May 1960.
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