Graham Charles Chadwick (January 3, 1923 – October 28, 2007) was an Anglican missionary and bishop; a gifted linguist (sources credit him with fluency in 11 languages); and an anti-apartheid campaigner. After war-time service in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve he was ordained in the Church of Wales. After an initial period in Basutoland (now Lesotho) he returned to Wales. A second period in Basutoland began in 1970 and he was elected Bishop of K...
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Graham Charles Chadwick (January 3, 1923 – October 28, 2007) was an Anglican missionary and bishop; a gifted linguist (sources credit him with fluency in 11 languages); and an anti-apartheid campaigner. After war-time service in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve he was ordained in the Church of Wales. After an initial period in Basutoland (now Lesotho) he returned to Wales. A second period in Basutoland began in 1970 and he was elected Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa in 1976. His anti-apartheid activities saw him expelled from South Africa in 1982 and necessitated his return to the United Kingdom.
Chadwick's father was a railway signalman who died when Chadwick was just ten. This prompted the move of the large family to Swansea. He left Swansea Grammar School at the age of sixteen in 1939, and spent three years working on the railways, responsible for station clocks on the line from Swansea to mid-Wales. In 1942 he joined the Royal Navy...
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