George Halford

George Dowglas Halford (1865-27 August 1948) was the second Anglican Bishop of Rockhampton from 1909 until 1920.

Halford was educated at Felsted and Keble College, Oxford. His first post was as a curate at St Peter’s Jarrow, after which he was its vicar before emigrating to Australia to become the head of the St Andrew’s Bush Brotherhood[1] and then Archdeacon of Mitchell, Queensland, where he remained until his ordination to the episcopate. He died after a long retirement on 27 August 1948.

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Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
Nathaniel Dawes
Bishop of Rockhampton
1909 – 1920
Succeeded by
Philip Charles Thurlow Crick