Otter, Anthony –  Naval officer became a bishop

Anthony Otter (1896-1986)

TONY Otter was the sixth Bishop of Grantham, in post from 1949 to 1965.

He was educated at Repton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained his Bachelor of Arts {BA} in 1920 and proceeded Cambridge Master of Arts {MA(Cantab)} in 1925).

After wartime service as an officer with the RNVR, he was ordained in 1926.

His first post was as a curate at Holy Trinity, Marylebone.

During his curacy he was also London Secretary for SCM and in 1929,  married Dorothy Ramsbotham, who died in 1979.

From 1931 to 1949 he was Vicar of Lowdham, rising in time to be an Honorary Canon of Southwell Cathedral and Dean of Stamford  before elevation to the Episcopate.

He was appointed Bishop of Grantham in 1949 from his ordination by Archbishop of Canterbury Geoffrey Fisher, at Southwark Cathedral[,[ until he retired in 1965.

During this tenure, he lived at the Bishop’s Palace in Stoke Rochford.

He was also a published author.

He died at home in Belton, in 1986.