Lichfield Theological College was founded in 1857 to train Anglican clergy to serve in the Church of England. Uniquely at its foundation, the college did not require a degree, and non-graduates made up the majority of its ordinands. The college had "high church tendencies". It was located on the south side of the Cathedral Close in Lichfield, Staffordshire and closed in 1972.
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Notable staff
Cecil Cherrington, lecturer, later Bishop of Waikato, New Zealand
George Kilpatrick, lecturer, later Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford
Barry Rogerson, lecturer, later Bishop of Bristol
James Srawley, Vice-Principal, later Canon of Lincoln Cathedral
List of Principals
1880–1885: George Herbert Moberly
1909-1931: Lawrence Arthur Phillips
1958–1965: John Fenton
1966–1972: John Yates
Notable alumni
John Barker, Dean of Cloyne in the Church of Ireland
French Chang-Him, Bishop of The Seychelles and Archbishop of the Indian Ocean
Mervyn Charles-Edwards, Bishop of Worcester
Malcolm Clark, Dean of Edinburgh
Robert Hodson, Bishop of Shrewsbury
Sope Johnson, Provost of the Cathedral Church of Christ, Lagos
Hope Patten, Anglo-Catholic priest known for his restoration of the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
John Simkin, Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand
Horace Tonks, Bishop of the Windward Islands
Frank Weston, Bishop of Knaresborough