Geoffrey Lunt

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The Rt Rev Geoffrey Charles Lester Lunt^[1] (1885–1948) was an eminent Anglican priest in the first half of the 20th century.^[2]

Born into an ecclesiastical family^[3] and educated at Sherborne and Exeter College, Oxford^[4] he was ordained in 1909. His first post was as Curate at Christ Church, Clifton, Bristol,^[5] after which he was Secretary of the CMS for Public Schools and Young People’s Work then Vicar of St Paul’s, Bedminster. A Chaplain to the Forces in France during the Great War^[6] he was awarded the Military Cross in 1917. When peace returned he became Vicar of All Saints, Northampton then Archdeacon of Egypt. From 1928 he was Vicar of St Mary’s, Portsea, Portsmouth, the largest parish of the city.^[7] before his elevation to the Episcopate as Bishop of Ripon.^[8] He was translated to Salisbury in 1946^[9] and died in post two years later.^[10]

References

↑ NPG details
↑ National Archives
↑ Genealogical web-site
↑ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
↑ Church website
↑ London Gazette
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
↑ New Bishop Of Ripon Canon Lunt Appointed The Times Monday, 29 October 1934; p. 14; Issue 46897; col F
↑ Ecclesiastical News Confirmation Of Bishop Of Salisbury's Election The Times Thursday, 10 October 1946; p. 7; Issue 50578; col C
↑ The Times, Saturday, 18 December 1948; p. 6; Issue 51258; col G Obituary Bishop Of Salisbury

Church of England titles
Preceded by Edward Arthur Burroughs	Bishop of Ripon 1935 – 1946	Succeeded by George Armitage Chase
Preceded by Neville Lovett	Bishop of Salisbury 1946 – 1948	Succeeded by William Louis Anderson

v t e Bishops of Ripon

Diocesan bishops	Charles Longley Robert Bickersteth William Boyd Carpenter Thomas Drury Thomas Strong Edward Burroughs Geoffrey Lunt George Chase John Moorman Hetley Price David Young John Packer, Bishop of Ripon and Leeds James Bell, Acting Bishop of Ripon and Leeds

Area bishops	James Bell, Bishop of Knaresborough, area bishop-designate for Ripon

v t e Bishops of Salisbury

see at Old Sarum	merged from Ramsbury & Sherborne Herman Saint Osmund Roger Henry de Sully Philip de Harcourt Josceline de Bohon Hubert Walter Herbert Poore Richard Poore see removed to New Sarum

Medieval	Richard Poore Robert de Bingham William de York Giles of Bridport Walter de la Wyle Robert Wickhampton Walter Scammel Henry Brandeston Lawrence de Awkeburne William de la Corner Nicholas Longespee Simon of Ghent Roger Martival Robert Wyvil Ralph Ergham John Waltham Richard Mitford Nicholas Bubwith Robert Hallam John Chandler Robert Neville William Ayscough Richard Beauchamp Lionel Woodville Thomas Langton John Blyth Henry Deane

Early modern	Edmund Audley Lorenzo Campeggio Nicholas Shaxton John Capon Gasparo Contarini William Petow Francis Mallet John Jewel Edmund Gheast John Piers John Coldwell Henry Cotton Robert Abbot Martin Fotherby Robert Tounson John Davenant Brian Duppa Humphrey Henchman John Earle Alexander Hyde Seth Ward Gilbert Burnet William Talbot Richard Willis Benjamin Hoadly Thomas Sherlock John Gilbert John Thomas (I) The Hon Robert Hay Drummond John Thomas (II) John Hume Shute Barrington John Douglas

Late modern	John Fisher Thomas Burgess Edward Denison Walter Hamilton George Moberly John Wordsworth Frederick Ridgeway St Clair Donaldson Neville Lovett Geoffrey Lunt William Anderson Joseph Fison George Reindorp John Baker David Stancliffe Nick Holtam

Persondata
Name	Lunt, Geoffrey Charles Lester
Alternative names
Short description	British bishop
Date of birth	1885
Place of birth
Date of death	1948
Place of death

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