Herbert Gresford Jones (1870–1958) was an Anglican bishop, the third Suffragan Bishop of Warrington. Born on 7 April 1870 and educated at Haileybury and

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, he was

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in 1894. He began his career with a

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at St Helen's Parish Church, Sefton, before Incumbencies at St Michael's-in-the-Hamlet,

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, and St John’s. From there he rose rapidly being successively

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of Bradford and then Archdeacon of Sheffield. In 1920, he was appointed as the first suffragan bishop of

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, but he returned to England in 1923 as Vicar of

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. From 1927 until 1945, he served as

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'', Monday, 10 October 1927; p. 17; Issue 44708; col C '' Ecclesiastical News. New Suffragan Bishop of Warrington'' A firm friend to churches overseas, he retired 18 years later and died on 22 June 1958. His son, Michael Gresford Jones, was also a

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Works

*''Foreign Missions and the Modern Mind'', 1905 *''Uganda in Transformation'', 1926

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1870 births 1958 deaths People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Archdeacons of Sheffield Bishops of Warrington 20th-century Church of England bishops {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub