High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Rt Rev Tom Longworth was an eminent Anglican Bishop in the middle third of the 20th century. He was born on 8 January 1891 and educated at Shrewsbury and University College, Oxford and ordained in 1916. From 1927 to 1935 he Rector of Guisborough and then Benwell before his elevation to the Episcopate as the second Bishop of Pontefract, with the additional title of Archdeacon of the area.Translated to Hereford in 1949 he retired in 1961 and died on 15 October 1977.