Geoffrey Durnford Iliff was an Anglican missionary bishop in China from 1903 to 1920.
Illif was born into an ecclesiastical familyHe was the 5th son of the Rev. George Iliff, Headmaster of Hall School, Sunderland > “Who was Who” 1897–1990 London, A & C Black 1991 on 7 October 1867. He was educated at St Edmund's School, Canterbury and ordained in 1892.ILIFF, Rt Rev. Geoffrey Durnford’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 28 July 2015 He was a missionary in China from then until 1920, the last 17 years as Bishop of Shandong.“The churchman's missionary atlas” Watson, C.M (Ed) London SPCK 1912 Returning to England he was the vicar of Goole until 1928 and Archdeacon of Hereford until 1941.Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP, 1941 He died on 10 June 1946.The Times, 13 June 13, 1946; pg. 1; Issue 50476; col A Deaths
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