Lionel Crawfurd

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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, Secretary of the Home Missionary Society and incumbent at three parishes^[4] before ascending to the Episcopate in 1915, a post he held for 19 years. A deeper thinker^[5] his Times obituary described him as “a kind, approachable man with a deep love of the countryside^[6]".

Notes

↑ 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
↑ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
↑ Photo of Church
↑ At his old Gateshead parish, Ramsgate and Ashford, Kent Who was Who"(Ibid)
↑ He wrote “The Transfiguration: a manifestation of God in Man" (London, Skeffington, 1912)
↑ The Times, Saturday, Sep 08, 1934; pg. 14; Issue 46854; col B "The Bishop Of Stafford Suffragan For Shropshire" Category: Obituaries

Church of England titles
Preceded by Edward Ash Were	Bishop of Stafford 1915 – 1934	Succeeded by Douglas Crick

v t e Bishops of Stafford

Edward Were Lionel Crawfurd Douglas Crick Lemprière Hammond Richard Clitherow John Waine John Waller Michael Scott-Joynt Christopher Hill Gordon Mursell Geoff Annas

Persondata
Name	Crawfurd, Lionel Payne
Alternative names
Short description	British bishop
Date of birth	1864
Place of birth
Date of death	1934
Place of death

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