Geoffrey Warde

The son of Henry John Warde (a priest), he was born in Croydon, then part of Surrey,{{Cite web | url=https://stats.acscricket.com/Archive/Players/1080/1080518/1080518.html | title=Geoffrey Warde | website=stats.acscricket.com}} educated at Tonbridge School and Keble College, Oxford; in 1915, he married Eileen (daughter of F.K. Hogkinson, priest).{{Who's Who |id=U160716 |title=Warde, Rt. Rev. Geoffrey Hodgson}}

Ordained priest on 3 October 1915 by Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London, at St Paul's Cathedral,{{Church Times | title = in memoriam: Bishop G. Warde | archive = 1972_05_26_004 | issue = 5702 | date = 26 May 1972 | page = 4 | accessed = 29 November 2019 }} he was a curate at St Pancras New Church. In June 1916, he was interviewed for a commission as an Army Chaplain, was described as 'Young, bright fellow' and, although an Anglo-Catholic in a predominantly low-church organisation, he was appointed Index Card Museum of Army Chaplaincy and, in January 1917,posted to Salonika.biographical article in 'The Great War issue 89' greatnorthernpublishing by Tom Scherb He spent one year there, enjoying the considerable opportunities for sport, at which he excelled, but enduring the tragedies of serving near the front line, caring for the wounded, burying the dead and dodging machine gunner bullets. Like so many in Salonika, he caught malaria which terminated his service on the front line.IWM Department of Documents. Diary of GH Warde He returned to England in January 1918 and was posted to East Leeds Military Hospital, which had been established in an old workhouse.headingleyhospital.org project After demobilisation, he was Priest-in-Charge All Saints, Pimlico[http://www3.westminster.gov.uk/docstores/publications_store/archives/infosheet5.pdf History of churches in area] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525155024/http://www3.westminster.gov.uk/docstores/publications_store/archives/infosheet5.pdf |date=2011-05-25 }} and then Vicar of St Mark's, Regent's Park.{{Cite web|url=https://www.stmarksregentspark.org.uk/|title=St Mark's Church Regent's Park}} From 1922 to 1928 he was Deputy Priest-in-Ordinary to George V and then Dean of Gibraltar.[http://www.gibconnect.com/~holytrinity/lower.php?filename=deans.php Deans of Gibraltar] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711092855/http://www.gibconnect.com/~holytrinity/lower.php?filename=deans.php |date=July 11, 2011 }} Returning to England in 1933 he became Vicar of Grantham and Rural Dean of North Grantham until 1939, then Archdeacon of Carlisle and ex officio a canon residentiary of Carlisle CathedralEcclesiastical News New Archdeacon Of Carlisle The Times Friday, 4 August 1944; p. 7; Issue 49926; col B before his last appointment as Bishop of Lewes (a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Chichester). He was consecrated a bishop on All Saints' Day 1946 (1 November) at Westminster Abbey;{{Church Times | title = Consecration of four bishops | archive = 1946_11_08_677 | issue = 4372 | date = 8 November 1946 | page = 677 | accessed = 29 November 2019 }} he also became an honorary canon of Chichester Cathedral, 1947–1963. He retired in October 1959Bishop Suffragan of Lewes to retire The Times Friday, 7 August 1959; p. 10; Issue 54533; col C and died at Hove in 1972.

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