Henry Montgomery Campbell


Henry Montgomery Campbell

Bishop of London
Montgomery Campbell in 1956
ChurchChurch of England
ProvinceCanterbury
DioceseLondon
In office1956–1961
PredecessorWilliam Wand
SuccessorRobert Stopford
Previous post(s)Bishop of Guildford
1949–1956
Bishop of Kensington
1942–1949
Bishop of Willesden
1940–1942
Orders
Ordination1910 (deacon); 1911 (priest)
by Edward Talbot, Bishop of Winchester (priest)
Consecration1940
by archbishop Cosmo Lang
Personal details
Born
Henry Colville Montgomery Campbell

(1887-10-11)11 October 1887
Died26 December 1970(1970-12-26) (aged 83)
Westminster Hospital
BuriedWivelsfield, Sussex
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglican
ParentsSydney Montgomery Campbell
SpouseJoyce Mary Thicknesse (m. 1916)
Children5
EducationMalvern College
Alma materBrasenose College, Oxford

Henry Colville Montgomery Campbell KCVO MC PC (11 October 1887 – 26 December 1970) was a Church of England bishop. He was ordained in 1910 and served as vicar or rector in a number of London parishes before being consecrated as a bishop in 1940, holding, successively, the suffragan bishoprics of Willesden and Kensington and the diocesan bishoprics of Guildford and London until his retirement in 1961.