George Jose

Who was George Jose?

George Herbert Jose was a canon of St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide, Australia, archdeacon of Mount Gambier and Dean of Adelaide.

Born at Bristol, UK, Jose was educated at Clifton College, and Worcester College, Oxford where he obtained his BA in 1903 and was awarded his MA in 1906.

He left England for Australia in 1888 and after marrying Clara Ellen Stuart in 1890 they went together to China in 1891 where Jose worked as a lay CMS missionary until 1899. His brother was Arthur Wilberforce Jose.

In 1900 Jose won a Davis Chinese Scholarship to Oxford University.

After ordination in England and curacies at Gloucester and Oxford he and his wife went to Adelaide in South Australia in 1903 where he took charge of St Cyprian's, Lower North Adelaide. In 1906 he was appointed as rector of Christ Church, North Adelaide. He was appointed a Canon of Adelaide in 1918 and Archdeacon of Adelaide in 1929. He resigned the incumbency of Christ Church in 1933 to become Dean of Adelaide until his retirement in 1953.

During World War I Jose was Chaplain to the Australian Military Forces including Deputy Senior Chaplain 1916-18. His son Wilfred was killed in action in France but another son Ivan was awarded the Military Cross. He had another son, Gilbert Jose, who was killed in World War II.