Fascinating people and Winnals Park - Right Reverend Jack Dain

Right Reverend Jack Dain

The Right Reverend Jack Dain, (1912 - 2003) was a noted conservative evangelical missionary leader, and one of the last Englishmen to serve as an Anglican bishop in Australia; from 1965 to 1982, he was assistant bishop of Sydney.

Arthur John Dain (always known as Jack) was born at Wolverhampton on October 13 1912. He was educated at the town's grammar school, then spent eight years sailing the world as a Merchant Navy officer. While in Calcutta he was converted to the Christian faith, and on his return to England entered a missionary college to prepare for work in India as a layman with the Regions Beyond missionary union.

When war intervened in 1939 he was commissioned in the 10th Gurkha Rifles, serving in Iraq, Syria and Iran. But on Japan's entry into the war in 1941 he was transferred into the Royal Indian Navy, serving on HMIS Dalhousie, based at Bombay, then at Karachi, before becoming RIN liaison officer in London. 

Bishop Dain was a director of Winnals Park between 1991 and 1993