Author talk:George Alfred Lefroy
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[edit]- No entry in "The Indian Biographical Directory, 1915"
- Venn, Cambridge
Lefroy, George Alfred.
Adm. pens.
at TRINITY, Sept.
3, 1874.
[4th] s. of [the Very Rev.] Jeffry (Trinity College, Dublin), of Loughbrickland, Co. Down.
B. there Aug. 11, 1854.
School, Marlborough.
Matric. Michs. 1874; B.A. (Theo.
Trip., 1st Class) 1878; M.A. 1883; D.D. 1899.
Ramsden Preacher, 1889 and 1904.
Ord. deacon (Ely) 1879; priest (Bp. of Lahore) 1881.
C.U. Mission (S.P.G.) at Delhi, 1879-89.
Head of United S.P.G. and Cambridge Mission in Delhi, 1891.
Bishop of Lahore, 1899-1913.
Bishop of Calcutta, 1913-19.
Died Jan. 1, 1919.
Brother of the two above and the next.
(Marlborough Coll. Reg.; I.C.S. Lists; Burke, L.G. of Ireland; Crockford; Who was Who, 1916-28.)
- Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908
LAHORE, Right Rev. George Alfred LEFROY, Lord Bishop of Lahore, Panjab—Trin. Coll. Cam. B.A. (1st cl. Theo Trip.) 1878, M.A. 1882, D.D. (jure dig.) 1899. 𝔡 1879 Ely, 𝔭 1881 Lah. Cons. Ld. Bp of Lah. on All SS. Day, 1899, by Bps of Calc; Bom; Madr; Chota Nagp; and Luckn. (Jurisdiction, Punjab, Sindh w Baluchitan, Kashmir, and the Persian Gulf; Area 100,000 sq. m; Ch. Pop. 50,000; Gross Pop. 34,000,000; Cathl Ch. of the Resurrection—Cons. Jan. 25th, 1887—Inc. of See from Endowment 750l, from Govt. 850l, total 1600l. Fell. of Univ. of the Punjab 1900. 𝔉 C.U.M. (S.P.G.) Miss. Delhi, 1879-99; Exam. Chap. to Bp. of Lah. 1885-99.