William Aubrey Aitken (known as Aubrey; 2 August 1911 – 1 June 1985) was the second Bishop of Lynn from 1973 until 1985. Born into a family of Norfolk priests (his father, , was Vicar of Great Yarmouth, whose own father, , was a Canon of Norwich) and educated at Norwich Grammar School and Trinity College, Oxford (he gained the degree of Oxford Master of Arts {MA Oxon}). He was ordained a deacon on 23 December 1934 and a priest on 22 December 1935, both times by Harold Bilbrough, Bishop of Newcastle, in Newcastle Cathedral. and in 1937, he married Margaret Cunningham; they had three sons and two daughters.