Martin Leonard

Who was Martin Leonard?

Martin Patrick Grainge Leonard DSO was an Anglican suffragan bishop from 1953 until his death.

He was born at Torpenhow, near Cockermouth, Cumberland on 5 July 1889 and educated at Rossall, Fleetwood, Lancashire and Oriel College, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with service as a World War I chaplain. He then occupied a similar post at Cheltenham College after which he spent 14 years with the Toc H organisation. Subsequently Rector of Hatfield, Rural Dean of Hertford and Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow and finally Bishop of Thetford, he was a lifelong supporter of the Boy Scout movement.

He died on 21 July 1963. Category: Deaths