Hugh Montefiore

Hugh William Montefiore (born Hugh William Sebag-Montefiore; 12 May 1920 – 13 May 2005) was Bishop of Kingston from 1970 to 1978 and Bishop of Birmingham from 1977 to 1987.

Montefiore was born in London, a member of a famous Jewish family. His parents were Charles Sebag-Montefiore (great-great-nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore) and wife Muriel Alice Ruth de Pass.

On 1 December 1945 he married Elisabeth Mary MacDonald Paton (13 October 1919 - 14 November 1999), sister of Sir William D. M. Paton, and daughter of the Rev. William Paton and his wife Grace Mackenzie. The couple had three daughters: Teresa Ruth Montefiore (27 January 1947), Janet Elizabeth ("Jan") Montefiore (14 November 1948), wife of Patrick Cockburn, and Catherine Grace Montefiore (4 May 1952).

He was educated at Rugby School, where he underwent a sudden conversion to Anglican Christianity after what he believed was a true vision of Jesus. He then served in World War II and gained the rank of Captain in the service of the Royal Artillery, in the Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry. Afterwards he graduated from St John's College, Oxford, with a Master of Arts (MA) in 1947, legally changing his name by Deed Poll on 7 January of that year, and from Westcott House, Cambridge.

He was ordained Deacon in 1949 and became the Dean of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was a University Lecturer in Divinity. He graduated also from St John's College, Oxford University, in 1963 with a Bachelor of Divinity (BD).

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