Geoffrey Franceys Cranswick (10 April 189419 July 1978) was the Anglican Bishop of TasmaniaNational Archives from 1944 to 1963."Ecclesiastical News: New Bishop Of Tasmania", The Times 20 October 1943; p.7
Cranswick was born in Sydney, a son of Canon Edward Glanville Cranswick (c. 1853 – 24 March 1934). He was educated at The King's School, Parramatta, Sydney Church of England Grammar School and the University of Sydney (B.A., 1916).
Cranswick was made deacon at Michaelmas 1920 (3 October) and ordained priest the Michaelmas following (2 October 1921) — both times by John Watts Ditchfield, Bishop of Chelmsford, at Chelmsford Cathedral — to a curacy at West Ham before being with the Church Mission Society (CMS)Catalogue of the papers of the Overseas DivisionNational Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives in Bengal to 1937Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941 and then Principal of King Edward's School Chapra until his ordination to the episcopate to serve as Bishop of Tasmania. He was consecrated a bishop on the Feast of the Conversion of Paul the Apostle 1944 (25 January) at Westminster Abbey by William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury. He died on 19 July 1978 and is buried in the churchyard at St Matthew New Norfolk.State Library of Tasmania His elder brother, George, was the Bishop of Gippsland from 1917 to 1942. References