John Randolph

Who was John Randolph?

The Rt Rev John Hugh Granville Randolph, DD was the Suffragan Bishop of Guildford and then Dean of Salisbury in the Church of England in the first decades of the 20th century.

Randolph was born into an ecclesiastical family: his father was a clergyman, The Rev Leveson Cyril Randolph. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was ordained into the priesthood in 1890. His first post was a curacy in Margate, after which he was Vicar of All Saints’, Westbrook, then St Mark’s, North End, before his elevation to the Episcopate. He died on 21 March 1936.