Lewis Bostock Radford (5 June 1869,

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- 2 April 1937,

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) was an

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and

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. Radford was the son of John Radford, a solicitor. He was educated in Mansfield and at

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, where he graduated BA in 1890 and MA in 1894. He was

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in 1892 and his first position was as a

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at Holy Trinity,

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. He then held incumbencies at St Peter's Forncett and then

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. After moving to

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, he was the

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of St. Paul's College, Sydney before being elected as Bishop of Goulburn on 18 May 1915. He was consecrated a bishop on 24 August 1915, installed on 31 August 1915 and served until his retirement on 31 December 1933. In 1918 he invited three army chaplains to establish a religious order at Bishopthorpe, the former home of the bishops of Goulburn. This religious order was the

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, which opened in 1921, and which was the first Anglican male religious order to successfully open in Australia. It existed until 1943. His last position was as the

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. He died on 2 April 1937."Obituary: Bishop Radford", ''

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'', 6 April 1937, p16

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, a school in

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, is named after him.

Works

* ''Thomas Becket before his Consecration'' (1894) * ''Epistle to Diognetus'' (1908) * ''Cardinal Beaufort'' (1908) * ''Three Teachers of Alexandria'' (1908) * ''History of Holt. A Brief Study of Parish, Church and School'' (1909) * ''Ancient Heresies in Modern Dress'' (1913) * ''Colossians and Philemon'' (1930)

References

1869 births Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge 20th-century Anglican bishops in Australia Anglican bishops of Goulburn 1937 deaths {{Australia-anglican-bishop-stub