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John Thornley Finney (born 1 May 1932) was the eighth Suffragan Bishop of Pontefract.He was educated at Charterhouse and Hertford College Oxford. Ordained in 1958 he began his career with curacies in Headington and Aylesbury and was then successively Rector of Tollerton Vicar of St Margarets Aspley Adviser in Evangelism to the Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham and then Officer for the Decade of Evangelism before ascending to the Episcopate – a post he held from 1993 until 1998.