Hugh Edward Ashdown[1] (5 July 1904[2] – 26 December 1977) was an eminentAnglicanclergyman in the mid 20th Century.[3]
Ashdown was educated atSt. John's School, Leatherhead, andKeble College, Oxford, his first post afterordination was as acurate at St Mary’sPortsea, Portsmouth.[4] He was then achaplain andlecturer at Lincoln Theological College and then theperpetual curate of St Aidan’s,West Hartlepool and after thatRector ofHoughton-le-Spring.[5] From 1948 he was theprovost ofSouthwark Cathedral. After his nomination on 15 March, he was consecrated to theepiscopate on 1 May 1957 as the 8thbishop of Newcastle, a post he held for 16 years until his 2 October 1972 retirement. He died onBoxing Day 1977.
