About: Colin Docker

Ivor Colin Docker (known as Colin; 3 December 1925 – 4 November 2014) was the 2nd Anglican Bishop of Horsham from 1975 until 1991 and the first area bishop from the area scheme's institution in 1984. Educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, Birmingham University (whence he gained a Master of Arts {MA}) and St Catherine's Society, Oxford, he studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Normanton, Yorkshire. From 1954 he was of the CMS and, after spells as Vicar of Midhurst and Seaford he was appointed Rural Dean of Eastbourne in 1971. Four years later he was appointed to become Bishop of Horsham, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Chichester; he was consecrated a bishop by Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, at We