George Appleton

Who was George Appleton?

George Appleton CMG, MBE was an Anglican bishop in the third quarter of the twentieth century.

He was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge and ordained in 1926. After a curacy at Stepney Parish Church he spent 20 years in Burma as a SPG missionary before returning to England. He was firstly vicar of Headstone then rector of St Botolph's Aldgate. In 1962 he became Archdeacon of London and a canon of St Paul's Cathedral and a year later Archbishop of Perth. In 1969 he was translated to Jerusalem. A prominent writer, he was awarded the Buber-Rosenzweig Medal by the Council of Christians and Jews in 1975.