Cecil Henry Boutflower (15 August 186319 March 1942) was an

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bishop who served both at home and abroad. ''Who Was Who 1897–2007''. London,

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, 2007 He was born at Brathay,

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, into a distinguished clerical family, the fourth son of The Ven Samuel Peach Boutflower,

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, by his second wife, Margaret Redmayne, daughter of Giles Redmayne of Brathay Hall and sister of

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. His elder half-brother The Rev Douglas Samuel Boutflower was

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of Easington. He was educated at

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and

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in 1887, he began his career with a

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at St Mary,

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and was then successively

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to the

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(then

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) of

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before ascending to the

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, where he was to serve in three posts until retirement. In 1904, George Sumner, Bishop suffragan of Guildford in the

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was ageing but not fully retired, so a new suffragan See of Dorking was erected and Boutflower was appointed

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early the next year; He was consecrated a bishop by

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, in

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on the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul (25 January) 1905. His appointment as the only bishop of Dorking was, functionally, an interruption in the See of Guildford; Boutflower took on suffragan duties in the north of the diocese. When Boutflower departed England for missionary duty in Japan at the start of 1909 (or very end of 1908), Sumner was persuaded to resign the See and John Randolph was appointed Bishop of Guildford, succeeding Boutflower in duties and Sumner in the see. He served in Japan as bishop in South Tokyo until he was appointed again as a suffragan for the Winchester, this time

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. That See was resigned by his predecessor on 30 April 1921; Boutflower had recently returned to England and held the See by

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(5 May). He had returned to England in ill-health, held a canonry at

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with his See; and eventually retired effective 30 September 1933, having been in ill health again for at least seven months prior. A staunch advocate of

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service, he married late in life, in 1933, to Joyce Segar, daughter of Halsall Segar, a priest.

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1863 births People from Windermere, Cumbria People educated at Uppingham School Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford 19th-century English Anglican priests Archdeacons of Furness Bishops of Dorking Anglican bishops of South Tokyo Anglican missionaries in Japan Bishops of Southampton 20th-century Anglican bishops in Asia 1942 deaths 20th-century Church of England bishops {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub