George Lefroy

George Alfred Lefroy^[1] (August 1854 – 1 January 1919) was an eminent Anglican priest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Lefroy was born into an eminent Irish family in County Down in August 1854: his father was Jeffrey Lefroy, Dean of Dromore, and his grandfather, Thomas Langlois Lefroy, Chief Justice of the Queen’s Bench, Ireland.^[2] He was educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge and ordained in 1879.^[3] He joined the Cambridge Mission to Delhi the same year and eventually became head of the SPG Mission in Delhi.^[4] In 1899 he became Bishop of Lahore.^[5] Translated to became Bishop of Calcutta in 1912,^[6] he became a Doctor of Divinity (DD) and died in post on 1 January 1919.^[7]

Works

• Lefroy, George Alfred (1884). The leather-workers of Daryaganj. Delhi: Cambridge Mission to Delhi.

References

1. Photo of Bishop Lefroy
2. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
3. "Lefroy, George Alfred (LFRY874GA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
4. "A Bishop in Search of a Church: George Alfred Lefroy," Cox,J in After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain. Essays in Memory of John Clive Peter Mandler,P/ Pedersen, S: London, Routledge, 1994 ISBN 0-415-07056-2
5. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
6. New Bishop Of Calcutta The Times Tuesday, 17 December 1912; pg. 10; Issue 40084; col B
7. Obituary- The Bishop Of Calcutta The Times Tuesday, 7 January 1919; pg. 11; Issue 41991; col E