George Alfred Lefroy (August 1854 – 1 January 1919) was an eminent Anglican

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and missionary in India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lefroy was born into an eminent Irish family in County Down in August 1854: his father was Jeffrey Lefroy,

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, and his grandfather,

Thomas Langlois Lefroy Thomas Langlois Lefroy (8 January 1776 – 4 May 1869) was an Irish-Huguenot politician and judge. He served as an MP for the constituency of Dublin University in 1830–1841, Privy Councillor of Ireland in 1835–1869 and Lord Chief Justic ...

, Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, Ireland. He was educated at

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and

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and

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in 1879. He joined the

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the same year and eventually became head of the SPG Mission in Delhi. In 1899 he became Bishop of Lahore.

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to become Bishop of Calcutta in 1912. Lefroy was known for his regular participation in public religious debates and for his lectures among Muslims and Hindus. He also joined fellow missionary C. F. Andrews in opposing western racism towards Indians. He became a Doctor of Divinity (DD) and died in post on 1 January 1919.''Obituary- The Bishop Of Calcutta''

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Tuesday, 7 January 1919; pg. 11; Issue 41991; col E

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