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Bishop of Lewes
A.K.A.
Geoffrey Hodgson Warde
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Male
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Birth:
23 August 1889
Death:
20 May 1972
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Biography
Geoffrey Hodgson Warde (23 August 1889 – 20 May 1972) was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.
He was educated at Tonbridge School and Keble College, Oxford. Ordained in 1915, he was a curate at St Pancras before wartime service as a Chaplain to the Forces, after which he was Priest in Charge at All Saints, Pimlico and then Vicar of St Mark's, Regent's Park. From 1922 to 1928 he was Deputy Priest-in-Ordinary to the King and then Dean of Gibraltar. Returning to England in 1933 he became Rural Dean of Grantham then Archdeacon of Carlislebefore his last appointment as Bishop of Lewes. He retired in 1959.