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The Rev Robert Henry Whitcombe (1862–1922) was an eminent Anglican Bishop in the early decades of the twentieth century. Educated at Winchester and New College Oxford from 1886 to 1899 he was a schoolmaster at Wellington College and then Eton. After this he was Rector of Hardwick Buckinghamshire and then Vicar of Romford before a 13-year spell as Bishop of Colchester from 1909. A memorial window to him is situated on the south wall of St Mary at the Walls Colchester.