Paul Burrough
John Paul Burrough MBE (5 May 1916 – 27 January 2003) was Bishop of Mashonaland from 1968 to 1981.
Background
[edit | edit source]He was born into an ecclesiastical family[1] on 5 May 1916 and educated at St Edward's School, Oxford, and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[2] He was a skilled rower and was in the Oxford crews that beat Cambridge in the Boat Races of 1937 and 1938.[3][circular reference]
During the Second World War, he was commissioned in 1940[4] into the Royal Signals. In 1942 he became a prisoner of war in Malaya. In 1946 he was appointed a member of the military division of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)[5] for his leadership in the PoW camps.
Ordained in 1951,[6] his first post was a curacy in Aldershot. After this he was a missionary priest in Korea[7] and then (his final post before elevation to the episcopate[8]) Anglican chaplain to overseas peoples in Birmingham. During this time he brought together a successful Trinidadian steel band and enabled them to find engagements, including a regular annual performance at the summer ball of his alma mater, St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He was Bishop of Mashonaland[9] in the Province of Central Africa from 1968[10] to 1981. On his return to England, he was Rector of Empingham and an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Peterborough, 1981–1985.[2] A Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem,[11] he died on 27 January 2003.[12]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ thePeerage.com
- ^ a b "Who was Who" 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). [1]
- ^ List of Oxford University Boat Race crews
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- ^ ”The Church serves Korea" Rutt, C. R.: London SPCK 1956
- ^ NCIDMA[permanent dead link]
- ^ Armourial of Zimbabwe and Rhodesia
- ^ The Times, Saturday, 27 April 1968; pg. 4; Issue 57237; col E New Bishop of Mashonaland
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- 1916 births
- 2003 deaths
- People educated at St Edward's School, Oxford
- Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
- Royal Corps of Signals officers
- World War II prisoners of war held by Japan
- English Anglican missionaries
- 20th-century Anglican bishops in Africa
- Anglican bishops of Harare and Mashonaland
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Anglican missionaries in South Korea
- British Army personnel of World War II
- British World War II prisoners of war
- Oxford University Boat Club rowers
- Zimbabwean people stubs
- African Anglican bishop stubs