Basil Guy (bishop)

Basil Tudor Guy^[1] (9 March 1910 – 29 April 1975) was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.^[2]

Guy was born on 9 March 1910 and educated at Forest School and Keble College, Oxford.^[3] After a curacy at Wanstead, he was Vicar of Bradninch then St Eustachius' Church, Tavistock before his appointment as Archdeacon of Bedford in 1956. A year later he was elevated to Bishop of Bedford^[4] in 1957. Five years later he was translated to Gloucester where he stayed until his death from cancer on 29 April 1975.^[5]

References

^ NPG details
^ Obituary-Bishop Of Gloucester The Times Tuesday, Mar 04, 1975; pg. 16; Issue 59335; col F
^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
^ with the additional position of Archdeacon of St Albans
^ "Deaths in the last year", Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76. London: Oxford University Press, 1976. ISBN 0-19-200008-X

Church of England titles
Preceded by Angus Campbell MacInnes	Bishop of Bedford 1957 – 1962	Succeeded by Albert John Trillo
Preceded by Wilfred Marcus Askwith	Bishop of Gloucester 1962 – 1975	Succeeded by John Yates

v t e Archdeacons of Bedford
High Medieval	Osbert Ralph Hugh Nicholas Alan Richard Geoffrey Alexander of Elstow John de Houton Amaury of Buckden John de Dyham John Crakehall Peter de Audeham John de Maidenstan Nicholas de Hegham Richard de Bradewell John Hook
Late Medieval	Roger Rothwell/Rowell Thomas Neville Edmund London John Daubeny Philip Daubeny Thomas Cumpton John Irtlingburgh Thomas Stowe William Aghton Richard Caudray William Derby Robert Thornton Thomas Salisbury John Rudying John Collinson Henry Sharp Thomas Hutton
Early modern	William Cosyn John Chambre Gilbert Bourne John Pope Michael Dunning Richard Barber William Todd John Robinson Roger Parker George Eland John Hacket Francis Wilford Theophilus Dillingham John Skelton Thomas Frank John Dudley John Taylor Charles Jenner Richard Grey Hadley Cox William Done Richard Shepherd
Late modern	Samuel Vince Henry Bonney Henry Tattam Henry Rose Frederick Bathurst Noel Hodges Arthur Parnell Gerard Lander William Robins Donald Harris Basil Guy Basil Snell John Hare Robert Brown Christopher Mayfield Michael Bourke Malcolm Lesiter Paul Hughes Dave Middlebrook

v t e Bishops of Bedford
John Hodgkins Walsham How Robert Billing Lumsden Barkway Aylmer Skelton Thomas Wood Campbell MacInnes Basil Guy John Trillo John Hare Alec Graham David Farmbrough John Richardson Richard Inwood Richard Atkinson

v t e Bishops of Gloucester and of Gloucester and Bristol
Gloucester (1541)	John Wakeman John Hooper See dissolved, 1552 & re-erected, 1554 James Brooks Richard Cheyney John Bullingham Godfrey Goldsborough Thomas Ravis Henry Parry Giles Thomson Miles Smith Godfrey Goodman Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth) William Nicholson John Pritchett Robert Frampton Edward Fowler Richard Willis Joseph Wilcocks Elias Sydall Martin Benson James Johnson William Warburton James Yorke Samuel Hallifax Richard Beadon George Huntingford Henry Ryder Christopher Bethell James Henry Monk
Gloucester and Bristol	James Henry Monk Charles Baring William Thomson Charles Ellicott
Gloucester (1897)	Charles Ellicott Edgar Gibson Arthur Headlam Clifford Woodward Wilfred Askwith Basil Guy John Yates Peter Ball David Bentley Michael Perham Martyn Snow (acting) Rachel Treweek

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