John Bone (bishop)


John Frank Ewan Bone was the area Bishop of Reading from 1989 until 1996.
He was educated at Monkton Combe School and St Peter's College, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Gabriel's, Warwick Square. After incumbencies at Datchet and Slough he was appointed Rural Dean of Burnham and then Archdeacon of Buckingham.
He died in 2014: his Church Times obituary stated that he was
"a great example of the quiet, reliable bishop who was trusted by many, worked hard, and never sought the limelight. "