Lionel Payne Crawfurd (1864–1934) was the second Suffragan Bishop of Stafford.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
Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford,“Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 he was ordained in 1890 and began his career with a curacy at St Cuthbert’s Gateshead.Photo of Church He was then successively Vice Principal of Leeds Clergy School, Bishop's Chaplain in Adelaide, and Secretary of the Home Missionary Society. In June 1902 he was asked to return to Gateshead as Vicar, and was then incumbent at Ramsgate and Ashford, Kent, before ascending to the Episcopate in 1915, a post he held for 19 years. A deeper thinkerHe wrote “The Transfiguration: a manifestation of God in Man" (London, Skeffington, 1912) his Times obituary described him as “a kind, approachable man with a deep love of the countrysideThe Times, Saturday, Sep 08, 1934; pg. 14; Issue 46854; col B "The Bishop Of Stafford Suffragan For Shropshire" Category: Obituaries".
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