The Rt Revd Geoffrey Hodgson Warde was an eminent Anglican Priest in the middle decades of the 20th Century.[1] He was educated at Tonbridge School and Keble College, Oxford.[2] Ordained in 1915, he was a curate at St Pancras before wartime service as a Chaplain to the Forces, after which he was Priest in Charge at All Saints, Pimlico[3] and then Vicar of St Mark's, Regent's Park.[4] From 1922 to 1928 he was Deputy Priest-in-Ordinary to the King and then Dean of Gibraltar.[5] Returning to England in 1933 he became Rural Dean of Grantham then Archdeacon of Carlisle Cathedral [6] before his last appointment as Bishop of Lewes. He retired in 1959[7] and died on 20 May 1972.
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| Preceded by James Cropper |
Dean of Gibraltar 1928 – 1933 |
Succeeded by Walter Kenrick Knight-Adkin |
| Preceded by Hugh Maudslay Hordern |
Bishop of Lewes 1946 – 1959 |
Succeeded by James Herbert Lloyd Morrell |
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