John Hugh Granville Randolph (20 January 1866National Archives21 March 1936)Obituary Bishop Randolph former Dean of Salisbury The Times Monday, 23 March 1936; pg. 18; Issue 47330; col B was the Bishop of Guildford (a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Winchester)The Times, Thursday, 25 February 1909; pg. 10; Issue 38892; col C New Suffragan for the Bishop of Winchester and then Dean of SalisburyThe Times, Monday, 2 December 1935; pg. 14; Issue 47236; col C Deanery Of Salisbury Resignation of Dr Randolph in the Church of England in the first decades of the 20th century.Who was Who 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991

Randolph was born into an ecclesiastical family: his father was a priest, Leveson Randolph. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge,The Times, Saturday, 12 November 1892; p. 10; Issue 33794; col F University Intelligence. Oxford, 11 November he was ordained into the priesthood in 1890."The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900 His first post was a curacy in Margate, after which he was Vicar of All Saints’, Westbrook,The Times, Thursday, 31 May 1894; pg. 10; Issue 34278; col C Preferments and appointments then St Mark's, North End,History of area before his appointment to the episcopate.Stained glass window in his memory

In late 1908/early 1909, Cecil Boutflower, Bishop of Dorking, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Winchester, departed for Japan; Boutflower had taken the See of Dorking only because George Sumner (Bishop of Guildford) did not resign his See; on Boutflower's resignation, Sumner was persuaded to resign the See of Guildford (by the time of Randolph's consecration). Therefore, Randolph was appointed as successor to both suffragans: to Boutflower in duties and Sumner in the see. He was consecrated on 21 February 1909, by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth Palace Chapel. Between the erection of the Diocese of Guildford on 1 May 1927 and his installation as Dean of Salisbury, he had no official post, but gave assistance to the bishops of Winchester, of Guildford and of Portsmouth. He became a Doctor of Divinity (DD).

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