Stanley Pickard
South African bishop (1910–1988)
Stanley Chapman Pickard, OBE (4 July 1910 – 31 March 1988) was the eighth Bishop of Lebombo from 1958 until 1969.
He was ordained in 1938 and his first post was as a curate at St Catherine's, New Cross. He became a UMCA missionary, rising in time to be Archdeacon of Portuguese East Africa. In 1958 he was elevated to the episcopate, serving for a decade. After this he was Rector of St John's, Belgravia before retirement in 1983.
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