Geoffrey Iliff

The Right Reverend Geoffrey Durnford Iliff was an Anglican missionary bishop in China from 1903 to 1920.

Illif was born into an ecclesiastical family[1] on 7 October 1867. He was educated at St Edmund's School, Canterbury and ordained in 1892.[2] He was a missionary in China from then until 1920, the last 17 years as Bishop of Shantung.[3] Returning to England he was the vicar of Goole until 1928 and Archdeacon of Hereford until 1941.[4] He died on 10 June 1946.[5]

References

He was the 5th son of the Rev. George Iliff, Headmaster of Hall School, Sunderland > “Who was Who” 1897–1990 London, A & C Black 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
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
“The churchman's missionary atlas” Watson, C.M (Ed) London SPCK 1912
Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP, 1941
The Times, 13 June 13, 1946; pg. 1; Issue 50476; col A Deaths

Archdeacons of Hereford
High Medieval	Heinfrid (territory unspecified) Geoffrey (territory unspecified) Peter Ralph Foliot William fitzWalter Alexander de Walton William de Ria Henry Bustard William of Conflans Roger of Sevenoaks Richard of Hertford
Late Medieval	Henry de Shorne Thomas de Chaundos (Sr) John de Barton William de Sheynton John de Bedwardine/Smythes Richard Tissington Richard Kingston John Loveney John Hereford John Barowe Richard Rudhale/Rudhall Richard Martyn Robert Geffrye/Jeffry Thomas Morton William Webb/Webbe John Booth/Boothe
Early modern	John Styrmin Richard Cheyney John Glazier Robert Crowley Edward Cowper Simon Smith Silvanus Griffiths Richard Montagu John Hughes Matthew Burst George Benson Samuel Benson William Johnson Brian Turner Thomas Fox John Walker Robert Breton John Harley James Jones John Lilly Henry Wetherell Richard Lane Freer
Late modern	Frederick Fiennes Berkeley Scudamore-Stanhope Edward Winnington-Ingram Rowland Money-Kyrle Geoffrey Iliff Arthur Winnington-Ingram Thomas Randolph John Lewis Thomas Barfett Andrew Woodhouse Leonard Moss Michael Hooper John Tiller Malcolm Colmer Paddy Benson Derek Chedzey

Anglican Missionary Bishops in China, 1849–1949
Shensi	Shen Zigao Newton Liu
Chekiang	William Russell George Moule Herbert Molony John Curtis Kimber Den
North China	Charles Scott Frank Norris Thomas Scott
Western Szechwan	John Holden Ch’eng-Tsi Song
Eastern Szechwan	William Cassels Howard Mowll John Holden Frank Houghton Kenneth Bevan
Shantung	Geoffrey Iliff Thomas Scott John Wellington
Fukien	Horace Price John Hind Christopher Sargent Michael Chang
Honan	William White Lindel Tsen
Kwangsi and Hunan	William Banister John Holden Percy Stevens

Protestant missions to China
Background	Protestantism in China Chinese history Missions timeline Christianity in China Nestorians Jesuits Protestant missions in China 1807–1953
People	David Howard Adeney Roland Allen Thomas J. Arnold Gladys Aylward William Jones Boone John Birch Pearl S. Buck John Burdon Hedley Bunton Thomas Cochrane Hunter Corbett Jonathan Goforth Frederick Graves Karl Gützlaff Francis Hanson Laura Askew Haygood Elizabeth G. K. Hewat Jennie V. Hughes Robert A. Jaffray Carl C. Jeremiassen Griffith John Walter Judd James Legge Eric Liddell Robert Samuel Maclay Lottie Moon Robert Morrison George Moule Gideon Nye David Paton Karl Ludvig Reichelt Timothy Richard Issachar Jacox Roberts Charles Scott Cambridge Seven George Smith Vincent John Stanton John Leighton Stuart Hudson Taylor Thomas Torrance William C. White (more missionaries)
Missionary agencies	OMF International/China Inland Mission LMS ABCFM CMS MEM PECM US Presbyterian Mission National Christian Council (more agencies)
Impact	Bible translations into Chinese Medical missions in China Manchurian revival Chinese Christian colleges Chinese hymnody Chinese Roman Type Minnan Roman Type Foochow Roman Type Anti-footbinding Anti-opium
Pivotal events	Taiping Rebellion First Opium War Second Opium War Unequal treaty Yangzhou riot Tianjin Massacre Kucheng Massacre Boxer Crisis 1911 Revolution Chinese Civil War Second Sino-Japanese War People's Republic
Publications	Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal

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