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Acknowledgements

My thanks must go first to Bishop Stephen Platten for inviting me to write this history and for his unfailing encouragement and support. I am grateful too to Anne Dawtry and June Lawson for reading the draft manuscript and for their constructive comments.

I have been privileged to see the material held by Bishop Seaton’s family and to read the unpublished memoir of Bishop Hone. I am grateful to both their families for their kindness.

The greater part of this account has been distilled from primary source material, including the Bishops’ Acts Books, held at various premises in Wakefield, and my thanks must go to the staff at Bishop’s Lodge, Church House, Messrs Dixon, Coles and Gill, Huddersfield Library Local Studies Department, Wakefield Library Local Studies Department, and the West Yorkshire Archive Service, who have all been tirelessly helpful. I have also made considerable use of local newspapers. Further points have come from very many people, within the diocese and beyond, who have provided information and insights. They include John Allen, James Allison, David Andrew, Janice Barker, Jane Bower, Linda Box, Margaret Bradnum, Paul Brier, Maureen Browell, Christine Bullimore, John Bullimore, Matthew Bullimore, Gill Butterworth, Ian Byfield, Jane Chesman, Roy Clements, Helen Collings, Mary Cooper, +Stephen Cottrell, Paul Crabb, Martyn Crompton, Jane Dickinson, Patrick Duckworth, Margaret Dye, +Christopher Edmondson, Ashley Ellis, Bryan Ellis, Lesley Ennis, David Fletcher, Brenda Frank, +Robert Freeman, Brian Geeson, Richard Giles, John Goodchild, Lisa Grant, Jonathan Greener, Pamela Greener, Irene Greenman, George Guiver, John Harris, Ruth Harris, Robert Hart, Steven Haws, Anthony Howe, Freda Jackson, Brunel James, Guy Jamieson, Alison Jewell, Adrian Judd, Celia Kilner, Felicity Lawson, John Lawson, Bryan Lewis, Jenny Lowery, Tony Macpherson, +Nigel McCulloch, Robin Mackintosh, John Maiden, Deidre Morris, Diana Monahan, George Nairn-Briggs, Peter Needham, David Nicholson, Catherine Ogle, Howard Pask, Elsie Peace, Philip Pearce, Matthew Pollard, Brenda Ratcliffe, Michael Rawson, Malcolm Reed, Mother Robina CSPH, Catherine Robinson, +Tony Robinson, Martin Russell, Tim Sledge, +Brian Smith, Christine Smith, Susan Starr, Christine Stearn, Richard Steel, Michael Storey, Dick Swindell, Isabel Syed, Barbara Tom, Timothy van Carrapiett, David Ward, Philip Wells, David Wheatley, Susan Whitwam, Michael Wood, Vicki Yates, and Michael Yelton. I am immensely indebted to them all. A substantial debt is due to Bishop Platten and Jane Butterfield for devising the index.

Kate Taylor

2012