[3] Made a deacon in Advent 1881 (18 December) at St Andrew's Church, Farnham[4] and ordained priest the next St Thomas's Day (21 December 1882) at St Nicholas', Guildford — both times by Harold Browne, Bishop of Winchester[5] — he was a Curate at Dorking after which he was Vicar of Wrecclesham and then Rural Dean of Godalming[6] before his appointment as Bishop of Lewes.

[7] He was consecrated a bishop on 11 July 1909, by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Croydon Parish Church.

[8] Translated to Sheffield on 21 March 1914 (in a service of investiture at York Minster),[9] he served 25 years as its first diocesan bishop.

[13] Clergy were serving as chaplains and in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and 51 sons of clergymen had volunteered for the military.

Is any sacrifice too great to achieve so priceless a blessing?’ [15] Like so many of his generation, Burrows would be disappointed that a Second World War lay just two decades ahead.