Leonard Burrows
Leonard Hedley Burrows[1] was an Anglican bishop.
Born at Rugby, Warwickshire on 7 December 1857, he was educated at Charterhouse[2] and New College, Oxford.[3] Ordained in 1881, he was a Curate at Dorking after which he was Vicar of Wrecclesham and then Rural Dean of Godalming before his appointment as Bishop of Lewes.[4] Translated to Sheffield in 1914 he served 25 years as its first Diocesan Bishop.[5] He died on 6 February 1940.[6]
Burrows was the father of Hedley Burrows (Dean of Hereford)[7] and grandfather of Simon Burrows (Bishop of Buckingham).[8]
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| New title | Bishop of Lewes 1909–1914 |
Succeeded by Herbert Jones |
| Preceded by as bishop suffragan | Bishop of Sheffield 1914–1939 |
Succeeded by Leslie Hunter |
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- ↑ NPG details
- ↑ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ↑ University Intelligence. Oxford,Feb. 3 The Times Friday, February 04, 1881; pg. 12; Issue 30109; col B
- ↑ New Suffragan Bishopric The Times Thursday, 27 May 1909; pg. 9; Issue 38970; col B
- ↑ His predecessor Quirk was a Suffragan; Burrows the first Diocesan
- ↑ Obituary- Rt Rev L.H Burrrows The Times Wednesday, February 07, 1940; pg. 11; Issue 48533; col F
- ↑ ‘BURROWS, Very Rev. Hedley Robert’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007 [1], accessed 30 June 2012
- ↑ ‘BURROWS, Rt Rev. Simon Hedley’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 [2], accessed 30 June 2012
