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Leslie Stannard Hunter DD was the second Bishop of Sheffield from 1939 until 1962. Born on 2 May 1890 and educated at Kelvinside Academy and New College Oxford he was ordained in 1915 and began his career with curacies at St Peter’s Brockley and St Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square. He was then a Residentiary Canon at Newcastle Cathedral after which he was Vicar of Barking. In 1930 he became Archdeacon of Northumberland a post he held until his elevation to the Episcopate.