Winfrid Burrows

{{Short description|Anglican Clergyman}}

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| title = Bishop of Chichester

| diocese = Diocese of Chichester

| term = 1919–1929 (death)

| predecessor = Charles Ridgeway

| successor = George Bell

| other_post = Bishop of Truro (1912–1919)

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| education = Eton College

| alma_mater = Corpus Christi College, Oxford

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Winfrid Oldfield Burrows (9 November 1858 – 13 February 1929) was the Bishop of Truro[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=530157&CATLN=6&accessmethod=5&j=1] Papers from this time within The National Archives and later Chichester[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=530157&CATLN=6&accessmethod=5&j=1] Diocese website in the first third of the 20th century.

Born into an ecclesiastical family,His father was The Rev. Canon H. W. Burrows, Residentiary at Rochester > Who was Who 1897–1990. London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}} Burrows was educated at Eton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford and ordained in 1888.The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory. London, Hamilton & Co 1889 Appointed a Tutor at Christ Church, Oxford in 1883The Times; 19 December 1883; p. 10; Issue 31007; col B "University Intelligence" he was later Principal of the Leeds Clergy SchoolThe Times; 24 September 1891; p. 7; Issue 33438; col E "Ecclesiastical Intelligence" and afterwards Vicar of Holy Trinity in the same city. He was vicar of St Augustine's Church, Edgbaston from 1903 to 1912 and was named Archdeacon of Birmingham in 1904.{{cite book | last=Malden Richard (ed) | author-link= | title= Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn) | location= London | publisher= The Field Press| pages=267| year=1920 | isbn=}} In 1908 he turned down the post of Archbishop of Cape TownThe Times; 25 November 1908; p. 6; Issue 38813; col D "The Archbishopric of Cape Town" before accepting the Truro See in 1912.

Burrows had planned a trip to Canada when the First World War began in August, 1914.Truro Diocesan Magazine, September, 1914 He supported British participation in the War,Truro Diocesan Magazine, e.g. December, 1915 and his monthly published diocesan magazines are filled with examples of clergy, clergy families, and church organisations committed to the War effort. For example, a Clerical Roll of Honour listed clergy and their sons 'serving their country', including, in May, 1915, 62 named by vicarage with one case of 6 of the same family.Truro Diocesan Magazine, e.g. May, 1915 In 1917, a list of daughters serving as nurses, teachers, cooks and munition workers was published.Truro Diocesan Magazine, e.g. July, 1917 Deaths of clergy and their sons and bravery awards featured prominently.Truro Diocesan Magazine, e.g. Aug, 1915 However, Burrows did not favour clergy serving as combatants. He said, "The impulse is good but it must be restrained. Whilst the 'general instinct is right' ... it would be shocking to us to realise that the hands that baptise our infants or break bread in the Sacrament, have just been working a machine gun or launching lethal gas on the fire"Truro Diocesan Magazine, December 1915. Many clergy ordained post-War had served as combatants, and ten became diocesan bishops. See 'What Did You Do in the Great War, Bishop II' by Tom Scherb, Stand To, WFA 2014. Some had handled machine guns and used lethal gas.

In 1919, Burrows was translated from Truro to Chichester where he served for ten years until his sudden death in Lambeth Palace.The Times obituary, 14.2.1929 William Champion Streatfeild,Father of the novelist Noel Streatfeild Burrows' Suffragan at the time of Burrows' death, died three days after Burrows' passing."The Bishop of Lewes. Long Service in Sussex Parishes". The Times; 16 February 1929; p. 7; Issue 45129; col A

Burrows' cousin, Leonard, was appointed Bishop of Sheffield in 1914.

Burrows was a High Churchman, and while Bishop of Truro, he emphasised the importance of the services of the Book of Common Prayer; a book of services for special occasions which he compiled and authorised was entirely based on the contents of the prayer book and on Scripture.Brown, H. M. (1976) A Century for Cornwall. Truro: Oscar Blackford; p. 70