The Right Revd Dr Kenneth Stevenson
21 / 01 / 2011
The colourful priest with a special interest in liturgy who became a popular Bishop of Portsmouth.
He was drinking champagne and listening to his favourite Bach only hours before his death in hospital.
With the passing of Kenneth Stevenson the episcopate has lost one of its most scholarly, unusual and colourful characters.
Born and brought up in Edinburgh, he was the heir to a distinguished clerical dynasty. He was of Danish ancestry – his maternal grandfather had been the Bishop of Aarhus with forebears as Lutheran pastors going back to the Reformation. Kenneth's father (following a distinguished architecture practice_ and father-in-law were both Anglican priests and two of his brothers-in-law, David Tustin and Peter Forster, are bishops.
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