Richard Parsons (bishop)

Richard Godfrey Parsons (1882–1948) was an Anglican bishop who served in three dioceses during the first half of the 20th century, and a renowned liberal scholar.

[1] Parsons was born into a Lancashire family [2] on 12 November 1882 and educated at Durham School and Magdalen College, Oxford.

[3] Ordained priest in 1907 he was a curate at Hampstead before four years as Chaplain at University College, Oxford.

Married with two children, he expressed a preference to remain 'at home' and he was posted to '2 General Hospital, London'.

During this period he was one of several clerics who made a major contribution to the revision of the Book of Common Prayer.