Geoffrey Iliff

Geoffrey Durnford Iliff was an Anglican missionary bishop in China from 1903 to 1920.

Illif was born into an ecclesiastical family[1] on 7 October 1867.

He was educated at St Edmund's School, Canterbury and ordained in 1892.

[2] He was a missionary in China[3] from then until 1920, the last 17 years as Bishop of Shandong.

[4] Returning to England he was the vicar of Goole until 1928 and Archdeacon of Hereford until 1941.