John Eastaugh
British bishop
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John Richard Gordon Eastaugh (11 March 1920 – 16 February 1990) was an Anglican bishop in the last third of the 20th century .[1]
He was born on 11 March 1920 and educated at the University of Leeds and ordained in 1944. He was made a deacon on Trinity Sunday 1944 (4 June) by Geoffrey Fisher, Bishop of London,[2] and ordained a priest the next Michaelmas (23 September 1945) by Robert Moberly, Bishop of Stepney — both times at St Paul's Cathedral.[3] He began his career with a curacy at All Saints' Poplar[4] and then held incumbencies at Hackney and Heston before being collated Archdeacon of Middlesex in 1966.[5] Having been elected and confirmed Bishop of Hereford during December 1973/January 1974,[6] he was ordained to the episcopate by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey[7] on 24 January 1974,[8] serving until he died in post 16 years later on 16 February 1990, aged 69.
