George Noakes


George Noakes was the Bishop of St Davids and the Archbishop of Wales.
Born in Ceredigion on 13 September 1924 and educated at the University of Aberystwyth, after wartime service in the RAFVR he was ordained in 1950. After a curacy at Lampeter he was successively Vicar of Eglwyswrw, Tregaron, Dewi Sant, a Welsh language church in Cardiff, Aberystwyth; and finally, before his elevation to the Episcopate, Archdeacon of Cardigan. He died on 14 July 2008, aged 83.