Geoffrey Cranswick

Geoffrey Franceys Cranswick (10 April 1894 – 19 July 1978) was the Bishop of Tasmania[1] from 1944 to 1963.[2]

Cranswick was educated at The King's School, Parramatta, Sydney Church of England Grammar School and the University of Sydney. He was made deacon at Michaelmas 1920 (3 October)[3] and ordained priest the Michaelmas following (2 October 1921) — both times by John Watts Ditchfield, Bishop of Chelmsford, at Chelmsford Cathedral[4] — to a curacy at West Ham before being with the Church Mission Society (CMS)[5][6] in Bengal to 1937[7] and then Principal of King Edward's School Chapra[8] 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.[9] He died on 19 July 1978 and is  buried in the churchyard at St Matthew New Norfolk.[10] His elder brother, George, was the Bishop of Gippsland from 1917 to 1942.[11]

References

1. National Archives
2. "Ecclesiastical News: New Bishop Of Tasmania", The Times 20 October 1943; p.7
3. "Ordinations". Church Times (#3011). 8 October 1920. p. 343. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 3 December 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
4. "Ordinations". Church Times (#3063). 7 October 1921. p. 331. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 3 December 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
5. Catalogue of the papers of the Overseas Division
6. National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
7. Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
8. "Cranswick, Geoffrey Franceys". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
9. "Abbey consecation". Church Times (#4227). 28 January 1944. p. 46. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 3 December 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
10. State Library of Tasmania
11. ADB on-line