George Hollis (bishop)

George Arthur Hollis (17 April 1868 – 20 March 1944) was a British Anglican bishop.

He began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St James Wednesbury,[3] followed by a spell as Perpetual Curate of St Bartholomew Armley.

[4] After this he was Vicar of Headingley and then the principal of Wells Theological College, before a 14-year stint as bishop of Taunton.

He married Mary Margaret Church (1874-1941), herself the daughter of an Anglican minister, at Wells Cathedral on 5 July 1898.

Of grandchildren: Adrian Hollis, Roger's son, was a chess champion and Classics don; while another is, like George, a bishop: Christopher's son, Crispian was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Portsmouth from 1989 to 2012.