George Lefroy

Who was George Lefroy?

The Rt Rev George Alfred Lefroy, DD was an eminent Anglican priest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

George Alfred Lefroy was born into an eminent Irish family in County Down in August 1854: his father was the Very Rev Jeffrey Lefroy Dean of the Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer Dromore, and his grandfather, Thomas Langlois Lefroy, Chief Justice of the Queen’s Bench, Ireland. He was educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge and ordained in 1879. He joined the Cambridge Mission to Delhi the same year and eventually became head of the SPG Mission in Delhi. In 1899 he became Bishop of Lahore. Translated to Calcutta in 1912 he died in post on 1 January 1919.