Norman Tubbs

Who was Norman Tubbs?

Norman Henry Tubbs was an Anglican priest in the 20th century.

Tubbs was educated at Highgate School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1903 and was a curate at Whitechapel Parish Church before going to India as a Church Mission Society missionary, eventually becoming principal of Bishop’s College, Calcutta. In 1923 he was ordained to the episcopate as the 4th Bishop of Tinnevelly. He was translated to Bishop of Rangoon in 1928 and returned to England six years later to be the Archdeacon of Chester and later Dean of Chester.

Norman Tubbs was the father of Canon Christopher Norman Tubbs, Vicar of Scalby, North Yorkshire from 1959 to 1995, Rural Dean of Scarborough from 1976 to 1982 and a Canon of York Minster. Canon Tubbs was ordained by his father in Chester Cathedral in 1952.