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George Frederick Townley (15 April 1891 – 9 March 1977) was the sixth Bishop of Hull in the modern era from 1957 until 1965.He was educated at Lincoln College Oxford. His first post after World War I service was as a curate in Keighley. He was then Vicar of Lidget Green Bradford and then of Linthorpe Middlesbrough Rural Dean of Scarborough and finally Archdeacon of Cleveland before elevation to the episcopate as a Suffragan to the Archbishop of York.He died on 9 March 1977.