Thomas Chapman (bishop)

Thomas Alfred Chapman (1867–1949^[1]) was an Anglican bishop^[2] in the first half of the twentieth century.^[3]

Educated at Exeter College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1890^[4] and began his ecclesiastical career as a Curate at Charles Church, Plymouth. After this he was Vicar of St John, Carlisle^[5] and then Rural Dean of East Bristol.^[6] In 1899 he returned to Charles^[7] to be Rural Dean of the Three Towns and then a decade later became Rural Dean of St Peter's, Bolton^[8] before an 11-year spell as Bishop of Colchester.^[9]