Douglas Milmine
Douglas Milmine CBE (3 May 1921 – 28 February 2017) was the Anglican Bishop of Paraguay from 1973 to 1985.[1]
Education[edit]
Milmine was educated at Sutton Valence School and St Peter's Hall, Oxford; and was ordained in 1947.[2]
War service[edit]
Milmine served in the Royal Air Force Reserves from 1941 to 1945. In 1943, while commanding a Halifax bomber, he was shot down over Germany. He evaded capture for several days, heading overland into the Netherlands, where he was captured. He was held as a Prisoner of War in Stalag Luft III until the end of the war. He later told his school's magazine "Actually, it wasn't that bad – if you could survive boarding at an English public school then you could survive prison camp!"[3]
Ministry[edit]
Milmine began his ordained ministry with curacies at St Philip and St James in Ilfracombe[4] and St Paul's at Slough.[5]
In 1954 he moved to South America where he served in Chile, Bolivia and Peru and finally (until his ordination to the episcopate) as Archdeacon of North Chile, Bolivia and Peru.[6]
On his return to England, Milmine retired to Eastbourne, and served as an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Chichester.[7]
Personal life[edit]
Milmine married Margaret Rosalind "Ros" Whitley in 1945; and they had 4 children, 13 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.[8] She died in 2018 at the age of 97.[9]
He died on 28 February 2017 at the age of 95.[10][11]
References[edit]
- ^ "Significant dates in the history of SAMS" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2008. Retrieved 11 September 2008.
- ^ Crockford's clerical directory 2008/2009 (100th edition), Church House Publishing (ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0)
- ^ Old Suttonian Newsletter, July 2014
- ^ Church details Archived June 29, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Church website
- ^ ‘MILMINE, Rt Rev. Douglas’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015 ; online edn, Nov 2015 accessed 21 March 2016
- ^ Chichester Cathedral
- ^ Old Suttonian Newsletter ibid
- ^ Milmine
- ^ MILMINE
- ^ "The Right Reverend Douglas Milmine – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 15 March 2017.
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