Charles Lisle Carr 1931- 1942

Lisle Carr was educated at Liverpool College and St Catherine’s College, Cambridge, becoming a Fellow there in 1934. On ordination, he became curate in Birmingham diocese, and then at Redditch. Following a period as Tutor at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, he became vicar of St Nicholas, Blundellsands, Liverpool and then, also in Liverpool, Rector of Woolton. After a period as archdeacon of Norfolk and then of Norwich, he spent two years as Archdeacon of Sheffield before becoming bishop of Coventry in 1922. He was translated to Hereford in 1931.