He died on 28 October 1950.[14] He was a strong Evangelical and noted for his pastoral work.[15] He was the chair of a commission to produce a new English translation of the Bible from 1948 to 1950. Hunkin used as his pastoral staff a shepherd's crook of iron with a wooden shaft bound with a silver band inscribed "Un para, un bugel" (Cornish for "One flock, one shepherd") and enlisted in the Home Guard during the Second World War. A keen gardener, he was commemorated by a garden in the cathedral close and a shrub donated to every parish.[16] He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).
Writings
Among his published works,
Is it Reasonable to Believe? (1935) London: Hodder & Stoughton.
From a Cornish Bishop's Garden (2001), Penzance: Alison Hodge – a collection of newspaper articles from The Guardian, (an Anglican weekly newspaper) edited and introduced by Douglas Pett.[17]
^"Consecration of the Bishops of Truro and Bedford". Church Times. No. 3777. 14 June 1935. p. 711. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 4 December 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
^"British Legion volunteers". The Times. 7 October 1938. p. 8.
^Bishop of Truro: a Great Pastoral LeaderThe Times Monday, 30 October 1950; p. 6; Issue 51835; col E
^"Joseph Hunkin in New York". Time Inc. 14 February 1938. Archived from the original on 26 August 2010. Retrieved 20 March 2009.
^Brown, H. Miles (1976) A Century for Cornwall. Truro: Blackford; pp. 102–116
^Hunkin, J. W. "From a Cornish bishop's garden". Copac. Retrieved 23 April 2010.