Gordon Begbie

Herbert Gordon Smirnoff Begbie (28 October 1905 - 7 June 1973) was a suffragan bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney.^[1]

Begbie was born into an ecclesiastical family^[2] and educated at Trinity Grammar School, Sydney,^[3] the University of Sydney and Moore Theological College. He was ordained in 1929^[4] and held curacies at Eastwood and Hobart. After this he held incumbencies at Narrabeen, Moss Vale and Campsie. Later he was Archdeacon of Camden, Wollongong and then Cumberland. He was the Diocese’s Registrar from 1960; and Bishop of its Western Region (based in Parramatta) from 1967.

References

1. ^ NLA
2. ^ Biography of his father
3. ^ Who's Who 1970 ISBN 0-7136-1140-5
4. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941