The Rt Rev. Francis William Cocks was Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury. He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 5 November 1913 and educated at Haileybury and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Ordained at the beginning of the Second World War, he was a Chaplain in the RAFVR until 1945, and then the Service itself. From 1965 until 1970 he was Rector of Wolverhampton when he ascended to the Episcopate, a post he held for a decade. He died on 20 August 1998.

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  • The Rt Rev. Francis William Cocks was Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury. He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 5 November 1913 and educated at Haileybury and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Ordained at the beginning of the Second World War, he was a Chaplain in the RAFVR until 1945, and then the Service itself. From 1965 until 1970 he was Rector of Wolverhampton when he ascended to the Episcopate, a post he held for a decade. He died on 20 August 1998.
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  • 1970 – 1980
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  • The Rt Rev. Francis William Cocks was Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury. He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 5 November 1913 and educated at Haileybury and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Ordained at the beginning of the Second World War, he was a Chaplain in the RAFVR until 1945, and then the Service itself. From 1965 until 1970 he was Rector of Wolverhampton when he ascended to the Episcopate, a post he held for a decade. He died on 20 August 1998.
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  • Francis William Cocks
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