created Baron Blanch of Bishopthorpe in the County of North Yorkshire on 5 September 1983. Last years Blanch retired to Oxfordshire, living first in Bloxham and then in Shenington. He conducted services at Shenington parish church, and continued to lecture and write. He made four more lecture trips abroad after retiring from York, and wrote two more books. Blanch died of cancer at a hospice in Banbury, Oxfordshire at the age of 76, and was buried in Shenington churchyard. He was survived by his wife, son, and three of the four daughters, the eldest predeceasing him. Bibliography Books published by Blanch were: Arms See also Archbishop Blanch School, a secondary school for girls in Liverpool, named after Blanch Notes References 1918 births 1994 deaths Anglican bishops of Liverpool Archbishops of York Crossbench life peers Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom 20th-century Anglican archbishops Ordained peers People educated at Alleyn's School Royal Air Force personnel of World War II Evangelical Anglican bishops Royal Air Force airmen Royal Air Force officers People from Forest of Dean District Anglican lay readers