Norman Clarke (bishop)


Norman Harry Clarke was a British Anglican bishop who served as the third Bishop of Plymouth from 1950 to 1962 and, simultaneously, as the Archdeacon of Plymouth.
Clarke was born in Sheffield and educated at Sheffield University,. He was made deacon on Trinity Sunday 1916 and ordained priest the next Trinity Sunday — both times by Leonard Burrows, Bishop of Sheffield, at Sheffield Cathedral. He was a Diocesan Inspector of Schools, then a residential canon at Southwark Cathedral and finally Vicar of St Andrew’s, Plymouth. He was consecrated a bishop on St James's Day 1950 by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral.