Bishop Frank Noel Chamberlain

Bishop Frank Noel Chamberlain (7th Bishop in Office August 1956 - July 1961)
Bishop Frank Noel Chamberlain (7th Bishop in Office August 1956 – July 1961)

The Rt Rev (Frank) Noel Chamberlain CB AKC (25 December 1900 – 17 July 1975) was Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago from 1957 until 1961. He was born on 25 December 1900 and educated at The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, an independent school in Elstree in Hertfordshire and King’s College London. After graduation he was ordained in 1926 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at the Eton Mission, Hackney Wick. From 1928 until 1956 he was a Royal Naval Chaplain eventually rising to be Chaplain of the Fleet. In 1957 he was elevated to the Episcopate as Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago. Retiring to Portsmouth in 1961 he continued to serve the church as an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese until his death on 17 July 1975.

Bishop Chamberlain’s Final Ordination in The Anglican Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago held in 1961
Behind: The Right Reverend Frank Noel Chamberlain
Front Row from left to right: The Very Rev. Dr. Knolly Clarke, Rev. Fr. John Meteriver, Rev. Fr. Ivory Ottley

Succeeded by: Bishop William James Hughes
Preceded by: Bishop Douglas John Wilson