John Aglionby (bishop)

John Orfeur Aglionby MC (16 March 1884 – 15 May 1963)[1] was Bishop of Accra during the second quarter of the 20th century.

Educated at Westminster and The Queen's College, Oxford, Aglionby was ordained in 1911 and began his career with a curacy at Holy Trinity, South Shields.

He was noted as 'Tall, Quiet, fairly good' and, although he was strongly Anglo-Catholic in a chaplaincy preferring Evangelicals, he was appointed and posted to France.

In 1917, John was appointed Vicar of Monkwearmouth and remained there until 1924 when he became Bishop of Accra.

He volunteered his own book collection in 1928 and later his own money to establish the first location it the 1930s but it was lost to the government.