Martin Leonard

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Martin Patrick Grainge Leonard DSO was an Anglican suffragan bishop from 1953 until his death.^[1]^[2]

He was born at Torpenhow, near Cockermouth, Cumberland on 5 July 1889 and educated at Rossall, Fleetwood, Lancashire ^[3] and Oriel College, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with service as a World War I chaplain. He then occupied a similar post at Cheltenham College after which he spent 14 years with the Toc H organisation. Subsequently Rector of Hatfield, Rural Dean of Hertford and Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow^[4] and finally Bishop of Thetford, he was a lifelong supporter of the Boy Scout movement.^[5]

He died on 21 July 1963.^[6] Category: Deaths

References

↑ New Bishop Of Thetford The Times Thursday, 30 Jul 1953; pg. 6; Issue 52687; col F
↑ The Times, Monday, 22 Jul 1963; pg. 21; Issue 55759; col C Rt. Rev. M. P. G. Leonard Bishop Of Thetford
↑ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
↑ ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
↑ He wrote "A book of prayers and hymns selected for scouts" London, C. A. Pearson, 1933
↑ Deaths. The Times (London, England), Monday, 22 Jul 1963; pg. 1; Issue 55759

Religious titles
Preceded by John Gabriel Murray	Rectors and Provosts of St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow 1944 to 1953	Succeeded by Frank Fairbairn Laming
Preceded by John Walker Woodhouse	Bishop of Thetford 1953 to 1963	Succeeded by Eric William Bradley Cordingly

v t e Provosts and Rectors of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow

Rector	Richard Oldham

Provost and Rector	Frederick Ridgeway Howel Brown Frederic Deane Ambrose Lethbridge Algernon Seymour Kenneth Warner John Murray Martin Leonard Frank Laming Hugh McIntosh Harold Mansbridge Malcolm Grant Peter Francis Griff Dines Kelvin Holdsworth

v t e Bishops of Thetford

Medieval diocesan	Herfast William de Beaufeu Herbert de Losinga see removed to Norwich

Modern suffragan	John Salisbury Arthur Lloyd John Bowers John Woodhouse Martin Leonard Eric Cordingly Hugh Blackburne Tim Dudley-Smith Hugo de Waal David Atkinson Alan Winton

Authority control	VIAF: 150854337

Persondata
Name	Leonard, Martin Patrick Grainge
Alternative names
Short description	British bishop
Date of birth	1889
Place of birth
Date of death	1963
Place of death

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