John Vincent

Who was John Vincent?

The Rt Rev John Dacre Vincent MA MC and bar was the Bishop of Damaraland from 1952 to 1960.

He was born on 1 January 1894, educated at Marlborough and St John's College, Oxford, and ordained in 1921 after World War I service with the Devonshire Regiment. He began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Gillingham, Dorset and was then a Minor Canon at Bloemfontein Cathedral. After this he was Vicar of Longbridge Deverill in Wiltshire until 1937 when he returned to Bloemfontein as its Archdeacon, a position he held until his elevation to the Episcopate. He died on 19 May 1960.