George Wright
Deceased Person
1873 – 1956
Who was George Wright?
George William Wright was an Anglican Bishop in Africa in the mid-20th century.
He was born in born on 17 December 1873, educated at Barnsley Grammar School and ordained in 1906 following a 15 year career as a civil servant. After a curacy at Christ Church, Derby he went as a CMS missionary to Mombasa where he remained in various capacities until 1921 when he returned to England as Vicar of Boulton. In 1923 he was consecrated Bishop of Sierra Leone and in 1936 of North Africa. He was Vicar of Templecombe from 1942 to 1951 and an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Bath and Wells. He died on 11 August 1956
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