Walter Pym

Who was Walter Pym?

Walter Ruthven Pym was an English colonial bishop at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

The son of Alexander Pym and Eliza Elizabeth Pell, he was educated at Bedford School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1881, after a curacy in Lytham he was successively Vicar of Miles Platting, Wentworth and Sharrow before being appointed Rural Dean of Rotherham. In 1898 he ascended to the Episcopate where he developed a “vigorous and moderate evangelistic style”.

He married Lucy Anne Threlfall, daughter of Thomas Threlfall, on 8 August 1883. Their daughter Lucy Barbara Pym MBE married Sir Edward Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet. Their son Leslie Ruthven Pym was Conservative MP for Monmouth from 1939–1945, and his son, Francis Pym was a Conservative MP from 1961–1987 and a cabinet minister.

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