Winfrid Oldfield Burrows (9 November 1858 – 13 February 1929) was the Bishop of Truro[1] and later Chichester[2] in the first third of the 20th century.

Born into an ecclesiastical family,[3] Burrows was educated at Eton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford and ordained in 1888.

[4] Appointed a Tutor at Christ Church, Oxford in 1883[5] he was later Principal of the Leeds Clergy School[6] and afterwards Vicar of Holy Trinity in the same city.

For example, a Clerical Roll of Honour listed clergy and their sons 'serving their country', including, in May, 1915, 62 named by vicarage with one case of 6 of the same family.

Whilst the 'general instinct is right' ... it would be shocking to us to realise that the hands that baptise our infants or break bread in the Sacrament, have just been working a machine gun or launching lethal gas on the fire"[14] In 1919, Burrows was translated from Truro to Chichester where he served for ten years until his sudden death in Lambeth Palace.