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William Aubrey Aitken (known as Aubrey; 2 August 19111 June 1985) was the second Bishop of Lynn from 1973 until 1985. New Bishop named The Times Thursday, 21 December 1972; p. 4; Issue 58662; col. E
Born into a family of Norfolk (his father, Robert, was Vicar of Great Yarmouth, whose own father, Hay Aitken, was a Canon of Norwich) and educated at Norwich School and Trinity College, Oxford (he gained the degree of Oxford Master of Arts {MA Oxon}). He was ordained a deacon on 23 December 1934 and a priest on 22 December 1935, both times by Harold Bilbrough, Bishop of Newcastle, in Newcastle Cathedral. and in 1937, he married Margaret Cunningham; they had three sons and two daughters.
After Curate at Tynemouth (1934–1937) and Kingston, Jamaica (1937–1940), he was successively the Vicar at Kessingland (1940–1943), Vicar of Sprowston Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975–1976 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 and Rector of Beeston, Norfolk (1943–1953) and St Margaret's King's Lynn Church web site (1953–1961) before becoming Archdeacon of Norwich in 1961, a position he held until his appointment to the episcopate. He served as a Proctor in Convocation (1944–1974); from 1958, he was an honorary canon of Norwich Cathedral; and with his suffragan See he also held the Archdeaconry of Lynn (until 1980). He was ordained and consecrated a bishop on 2 February 1973, by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral. A keen yachtsman, Annals of the Norfolk Broads Sailing Club his residence at his death was the Bishop's House, Ranworth, and he died in post at the age of 73. Obituary — Bishop of Lynn The Times, Monday, 3 June 1985; p. 12; Issue 62154; col. G
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