Geoffrey Lunt

[1] Born into an ecclesiastical family[2] Lunt was educated at Sherborne and Exeter College, Oxford[3] and ordained in 1909.

While at Bedminster, Lunt was freed to join the Army Chaplain's Department and served in France and Flanders with the 17th Division on a one-year contract.

[5] He experienced the Battles of Arras and Passchendaele, witnessed cavalry attacks, bombardments and the effects of gas and helped with surgical operations, soup kitchens and mass burials.

From 1928 he was Vicar of St Mary's, Portsea, Portsmouth, the largest parish of the city,[7] before his appointment to the episcopate as Bishop of Ripon in 1935.

A rural diocese seemed to provide a more amenable setting than Ripon which included the city of Leeds.