Noel Chamberlain

Who was Noel Chamberlain?

The Rt Rev Noel Chamberlain CB AKC was Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago from 1957 until 1961. He was born on 25 December 1900 and educated at Haberdashers' Aske and King's College London. After graduation he was ordained in 1926 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at the Eton Mission, Hackney Wick . From 1928 until 1956 he was a Royal Naval Chaplain eventually rising to be Chaplain of the Fleet. In 1957 he was elevated to the Episcopate as Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago. Retiring to Portsmouth in 1961 he continued to serve the church as an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese until his death on 17 July 1975.