George Townley

Who was George Townley?

George Frederick Townley was the sixth Bishop of Hull in the modern era from 1957 until 1965.

He was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford. His first post after World War I service was as a curate in Keighley. He was then Vicar of Lidget Green, Bradford and then of Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, Rural Dean of Scarborough, Archdeacon of Cleveland and finally Archdeacon of York before elevation to the episcopate as a Suffragan to the Archbishop of York.

He died on 9 March 1977.