Joseph Wellington Hunkin OBE MC (25 September 1887 – 28 October 1950) was the eighth Bishop of Truro from 1935 to 1950. He was born on 25 September 1887 at Truro and educated at Truro College, the Leys School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Made deacon on St Matthew's Day 1913 (21 September) and ordained priest at Michaelmas 1914 (27 September) — both times by Archibald Robertson, Bishop of Exeter, at Exeter Cathedral, he began his career with a curacy at St Andrew's, Plymouth. He was then a chaplain in the British Armed Forces during World War I and after that Dean of Chapel at Caius (his undergraduate college). From 1927 until his ascension to the episcopate he was Archdeacon of Coventry and an Honorary Chaplain to the King. He was consecrated a bishop by Cosmo Lang, Archbisho