Lionel Crawfurd

Lionel Payne Crawfurd (1864–1934) was the second Suffragan Bishop of Stafford.[1]

Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford,[2] he was ordained in 1890 and began his career with a curacy at St Cuthbert’s Gateshead.[3] He was then successively Vice Principal of Leeds Clergy School, Bishop's Chaplain in Adelaide, and Secretary of the Home Missionary Society.[4] In June 1902 he was asked to return to Gateshead as Vicar,[5] and was then incumbent at Ramsgate and Ashford, Kent,[2] before ascending to the Episcopate in 1915, a post he held for 19 years. A deeper thinker[6] his Times obituary described him as “a kind, approachable man with a deep love of the countryside[7]".

Notes
  1. The Times, Monday, Jun 07, 1915; pg. 12; Issue 40874; col F "New Bishop Of Stafford. Mr. L. P. Crawfurd Appointed." Category: Official Appointments and Notices
  2. “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  3. Photo of Church Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. pp. 1417/8.
  5. "Ecclesiastical intelligence". The Times. No. 36804. London. 26 June 1902. p. 10.
  6. He wrote “The Transfiguration: a manifestation of God in Man" (London, Skeffington, 1912)
  7. The Times, Saturday, Sep 08, 1934; pg. 14; Issue 46854; col B "The Bishop Of Stafford Suffragan For Shropshire" Category: Obituaries


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