Cecil Wilfred Wilson was an Anglican bishop, the second Bishop of Middleton

Bishop of Middleton

The Bishop of Middleton is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Manchester, in the Province of York, England. The title takes its name after the town of Middleton in Greater Manchester....

 from 1932 until 1937.

Educated at Norwich School

Norwich School (educational institution)

Norwich School is an independent school located in Norwich, United Kingdom. It is one of the oldest schools in the world, with a traceable history to 1096, and is a member of The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.It is a fee-paying, co-educational day school and has one of the best...

 and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

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, he was successively Vicar

Vicar

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 of St James’s, Holloway, Vicar of St Mary's, Swansea, a Canon

Canon (priest)

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 of Brecon Cathedral

Brecon Cathedral

Brecon Cathedral, in the town of Brecon, is the Cathedral of the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon in the Church in Wales, and seat of the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon...

 and Archdeacon

Archdeacon

An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in Anglicanism, Syrian Malabar Nasrani, Chaldean Catholic, and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop. In the High Middle Ages it was the most senior diocesan position below a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church...

 of Bradford

Bradford

Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...

. During his last year before ascending to the Episcopate

Episcopal See

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 he was also the inaugural Provost

Provost (religion)

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 of Bradford Cathedral

Bradford Cathedral

Bradford Cathedral , full name Cathedral Church of St Peter, is situated in the heart of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, on a site used for Christian worship since the 8th century when missionaries based in Dewsbury evangelised the region...

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A prominent Freemason, he had a “sympathetic understanding of the poor”.