Stanley Eric Francis Booth-Clibborn was a British Anglican bishop in the late 20th century.
31 Facts About Stanley Booth-Clibborn
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn was Bishop of Manchester from 1979 to 1992.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn was well known during his episcopal ministry for his outspoken political views and interventions on behalf of the poor.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn was called up to the British Army during World War II, and served in the Royal Artillery and the Royal Indian Artillery.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn served two curacies in the Diocese of Sheffield in the first half of the 1950s.
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In 1978, it was announced that Stanley Booth-Clibborn would be the next Bishop of Manchester, the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Manchester in the north of England.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn was born on 20 October 1924 in London, England.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn was the grandson of Arthur Clibborn and Kate Booth, the daughter of The Salvation Army founder William Booth.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn's father, John Eric Booth-Clibborn, was a Church of England clergyman.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn was educated at Highgate School, then an all-boys private school in Highgate, London.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn was for a time an evacuee when his school was moved to the country to escape The Blitz.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn graduated from the University of Oxford with a second-class Bachelor of Arts degree in 1951.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn spent two years serving in India during which he was attached to the Royal Indian Artillery.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn was demobilised in 1948 after five years of military service.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1952 and as a priest in 1953.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn then served as curate of the Parish of Attercliffe with Carbrook, in the Diocese of Sheffield.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn was Training Secretary to the Christian Council of Kenya from 1956 to 1963.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn was then editor-in-chief of the East African Venture Newspapers based in Nairobi.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn was then Vicar of the Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge, between 1970 and 1979; the church of the University of Cambridge.
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On 5 September 1978 it was announced that Stanley Booth-Clibborn was to be the next Bishop of Manchester.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn was the next most senior diocesan bishop by length of term and so filled the seat of a retiring bishop in the Lords.
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In November 1992, Stanley Booth-Clibborn stepped down as Bishop of Manchester and retired from full-time ministry.
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In June 1994, it was reported that while in Uganda Stanley Booth-Clibborn had been shot in the leg by attackers who demanded money.
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On 6 March 1996, Stanley Booth-Clibborn died in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the age 71.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn had been suffering from an infection that occurred following a hernia operation.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn's ashes are buried in a grave in Morningside Cemetery, Edinburgh in the south-west section.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn campaigned for the freeing of Jomo Kenyatta and described his importance to Kenya as similar to Gandhi's importance to India.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn was regarded as a "dangerous radical" by supporters of the Thatcher government.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn trained for the priesthood at a Liberal Anglo-Catholic theological college.
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In 1989, Stanley Booth-Clibborn was awarded an honorary fellowship by Manchester Polytechnic.
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Stanley Booth-Clibborn was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by the University of Manchester in 1994.