Geoffrey Clayton (bishop)

Geoffrey Hare Clayton was an Anglican bishop[1] in the 20th century.

He was born on 12 December 1884,[2] educated at Rugby and Pembroke College, Cambridge, and ordained, after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon, in 1909.[3] A Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge,[4] he was its Dean from 1910 to 1914 when he became a Chaplain to the BEF. When peace returned he was vicar of Little St Mary's, Cambridge[5] and after that (successively) vicar, rural dean and finally archdeacon of Chesterfield.[6] In 1934 he became bishop of Johannesburg[7] and served for 14 years before his appointment as archbishop of Cape Town. A sub-prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, he died on 7 March 1957.[8]

  1. ^ Alan Paton (1974). Apartheid and the Archbishop: The Life and Times of Geoffrey Clayton, Archbishop of Cape Town. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-684-13713-1.
  2. ^ Who's Who 2008. A&C Black. 10 December 2007. ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8.
  3. ^ Oxford University Press (1976). Crockford's Clerical Directory: A Reference Book of the Clergy of the Provinces of Canterbury and York and of Other Anglican Provinces and Dioceses. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-200008-8.
  4. ^ University Intelligence, The Times, Friday, 30 October 1908; p. 13; Issue 38791; col B
  5. ^ "Incumbents - LSM". www.lsm.org.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  6. ^ Besier, Gerhard (2015). 'Intimately Associated for Many Years': George K. A. Bell's and Willem A. Visser 't Hooft's Common Life-Work in the Service of the Church Universal – Mirrored in their Correspondence (Part Two 1950-1958). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 705. ISBN 9781443886253.
  7. ^ See of Johannesburg Archdeacon of Chesterfield Elected Bishop The Times Friday, 8 December 1933; p. 14; Issue 46622; col B
  8. ^ Archbishop of Cape Town Scholar And Christian Gentleman The Times Friday, 8 March 1957; p. 13; Issue 53784; col D