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The Right Reverend

Alfred Blunt
Bishop of Bradford
ChurchChurch of England
DioceseBradford
In office1931–1955
PredecessorArthur Perowne
SuccessorDonald Coggan
Other post(s)Canon of Derby and bishop's examining chaplain (1927–1931)
Orders
Ordination1904 (deacon); 1905 (priest)
Consecration1931
Personal details
Born
Alfred Walter Frank Blunt

(1879-09-24)24 September 1879
Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Died12 June 1957(1957-06-12) (aged 77)
York, Yorkshire, England
NationalityEnglish
DenominationAnglican
Spouse
Maggie Duke
(m. 1909)
Alma materExeter College, Oxford

Alfred Walter Frank Blunt (24 September 1879 – 12 June 1957) was an English Anglican bishop. He was the second Bishop of Bradford from 1931 to 1955 and is best known for a speech that exacerbated the abdication crisis of King Edward VIII.

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