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| Name: | Oliver Claude Allison |
| Sex: | Male |
| Father: | William Sherard Allison (1863-1931) |
| Mother: | Emily Beatrice Wheeler (1883-1971) |
| Birth | 1908 | Stafford, Staffordshire |
| Birth fact | 1908 (age 0) | GRO Reference: 1908 J Quarter in STAFFORD Volume 06B Page 20 |
| Census | 1911 (age 2-3) | Living with parents |
| Death | 7 Jun 1989 (age 80-81) | Bexhill, Sussex |
Oliver Claude Allison, CBE, born 1908 was Bishop in the Sudan for over 20 years in the second part of the 20th century. Educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham and Queen's College, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1933 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Boscombe.
1932-36 Curate at Christ Church Fulwood (Sheffield).
1936-38 Youth Secretary to Winchester Diocese
1938 Accepted by Church Missionary Society (CMS) and left for Anglo Egyptian Sudan. He began what was to be along association with the Sudan by becoming a Missionary in Juba followed by a stint as Assistant Bishop of the diocese.
1947 Became Mission Secretary for Sudan.
1948 Consecrated Bishop, to be the assistant Bishop to Rt Rev Morris Gelsthorpe who was the first Bishop of the new diocese of Sudan under the Archbishopric of Jerusalem.
1953 Became Diocesan Bishop on Gelsthorpe's retirement. His pastoral duties extended to oversight of Churches in Yemen, Aden, Eritrea, Ethiopia & Somaliland.
1974 Retired. When back in England he did a lot of work to help through the Sudan Church Association. Returning to England he often preached about his eventful life at parishes who wanted to know more about the region.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Allison; accessed 15.10.2012
ALLISON Reverend Oliver Claude of 1 Gloucester Ave Bexhill-on-Sea E Sussex died 7 June 1989. Probate Brighton 26 September £115775.