Hubert Burge

[7] Burge was Headmaster of Repton School from 1900 to 1901[8] and then of Winchester from 1901 to 1911,[9] before his elevation to the episcopate as Bishop of Southwark in 1911.

[10] It was a surprise appointment because Burge had had no parochial experience and his health was fragile, and the Southwark diocese was regarded as very demanding for a diocesan Bishop.

[11] During the First World War, Burge emphasised the importance of Christian principles underpinning British involvement.

‘The thing for which England is to stand to her children and before the bar of history is not simply political liberty and justice and constitutional government and international conscience, but the ‘Mind of Christ’ informing the life of her people, and giving political and moral ideals their true sanction.

[15] Burge was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1925 Birthday Honours, days before he died in office on 11 June 1925.