[2] Corfield was born into an ecclesiastical family – the second son of Egerton Corfield, a Church Mission Society (CMS) priest in India, and grandson to two priests, F. C. Corfield and T. A. Anson, both of Derbyshire[3] – and educated at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate and Jesus College, Cambridge.
After World War I service as a temporary Lieutenant in the RFA (during which he was mentioned in dispatches twice)[4] he was ordained in 1920.
He was Principal of the CMS School at Batala from then until 1928; and then held a similar post at Dera Ismail Khan until 1935.
Returning to England he was Vicar of Christ Church, South Nutfield[5] until 1938 when he was appointed to the episcopate.
In 1962 he was appointed the Chaplain of St John's Hospital, Winchester,[8] and died in post on 22 July 1965.