confirmed at St Mary-le-Bow on 23 March — it was at this point that he legally became Bishop of Peterborough. Blagden was consecrated as a bishop at Westminster Abbey, on 25 March 1927, by Theodore Woods, Bishop of Winchester, assisted by Guy Warman, Bishop of Chelmsford; Michael Furse, Bishop of St Albans; Thomas Strong, Bishop of Oxford; Charles Lisle Carr, Bishop of Coventry; Walter Whittingham, Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich; Cyril Bardsley, Bishop of Leicester (Blagden's predecessor at Peterborough); Edward Bidwell, retired Bishop of Ontario; and Nelson Fogarty, Bishop of Damaraland. He held that See for 22 years before his resignation on 29 September 1949, after which he retired to Westmorland and died on 7 September 1952 at Rugby. He was survived by his wife Evelyn, who died on 10 September 1956 at Preston, Lancashire. References 1874 births People educated at Bradfield College Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Archdeacons of Coventry Archdeacons of Warwick Bishops of Peterborough 20th-century Church of England bishops 1952 deaths