Lionel Berners Cholmondeley

Lionel Berners Cholmondeley (11 December 1858 – 21 January 1945) was an ordained Anglican priest, educator, historian and Rector of St. Barnabas' Church at Ushigome in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

[1] For thirty years he served as a minister in the Anglican Church in Japan, and variously as a lecturer at Waseda University and honorary chaplain to the British Embassy in Tokyo.

[4] Cholmondeley attended Uppingham School and graduated with a BA in 1882 (subsequently raised to an MA in 1885) from Oriel College, Oxford.

[5] After graduation from Oxford and following in the footsteps of both his father and elder brother Francis, Lionel Cholmondeley followed a path to ordination in Church of England.

[4] In July 1902, Cholmondeley succeeded Archdeacon Alexander Croft Shaw as honorary chaplain to the British Embassy, Tokyo,[7] a position he held until his retirement and return to England in 1922.

Chichi-jima in the Meiji period during the time frame in which Cholmondeley would have made trips to the island.