George Halford

Who was George Halford?

George Dowglas Halford was the second Anglican Bishop of Rockhampton from 1909 until 1920.

Halford was educated at Felsted and Keble College, Oxford. His first post was as a curate at St Peter’s Jarrow, after which he was its vicar before emigrating to Australia to become the head of the St Andrew’s Bush Brotherhood and then Archdeacon of Mitchell, Queensland, where he remained until his ordination to the episcopate. He died after a long retirement on 27 August 1948.