Cyril Easthaugh (22 December 189716 December 1988) was a British

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bishop in the 20th century. He was

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from 1949 to 1961 and

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from 1961 to 1972.

Early life and education

Easthaugh was born on 22 December 1897 in

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, England. The family name had been changed from Eastaugh to Easthaugh in 1883. Having won a scholarship, he was educated at Archbishop Tenison's Grammar School (now Archbishop Tenison's Church of England School) in London. He left school at 17 to serve in the army during

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. He was commissioned into the

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. He was awarded the

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(MC) in 1917, at the age of 19. After the war, he worked in business before feeling the call to the priesthood. He then

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into

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, to study theology. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1928; as per tradition, his BA was promoted to a

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(MA (Oxon)) degree in 1932. In 1928, he entered

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, a

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in the

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, to train for ordination.

Ordained ministry

Easthaugh was

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in the

: made a

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1929 (22 September), by

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, Bishop of Southwark, at

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, and ordained a

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in 1930. He served his

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, a church in the

of the Church of England. He returned to his

(

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) to serve as chaplain until 1934. He then served as

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until 1935. He returned to parish ministry and became

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of St John the Divine, Kennington. He spent fourteen years there, before his consecration to the episcopate in 1949. In 1941, the church building was struck by a bomb during the

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. On 1 November 1949, he was

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a bishop at

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. He was appointed

, a

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in the

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. From the confirmation of his election to the See in late December 1961, he became the

until his retirement in 1971. For a decade he continued as chairman of the

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. He was an opponent of union between the

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and the

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. He was Life President of the Guild of All Souls, an

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. His

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fell within the Catholic wing of the Church of England and he hoped for the eventual union of Anglicans with the

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. However, he supported the retention of the peculiar flavour of Catholicism that had developed in England and did not support the Church of England becoming a carbon-copy of continental Roman Catholicism.

Later life

Easthaugh died on 16 December 1988. On 28 January 1989, a

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was held for him at

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, London. It was led by

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, the then Bishop of London who later entered the

. Personal recollection - I was a choir boy at St John’s Hillingdon and the Bishop came to our church to officiate at confirmations. His grandiose and authoritative manner was befitting his position and he was impressively tall, handsome and very well spoken. He drove an elderly Rolls Royce and has left a lasting and pleasant impression.

Personal life

In 1948, Easthaugh married Lady Laura Mary Palmer, the third daughter of the Earl of Selborne.Marriage details
/ref> Together, they had three children; one son and two daughters.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Easthaugh, Cyril 1897 births Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Bishops of Kensington Bishops of Peterborough British Army personnel of World War I Recipients of the Military Cross 1988 deaths 20th-century Church of England bishops South Staffordshire Regiment officers Clergy from London Anglo-Catholic bishops People educated at Archbishop Tenison's Church of England School, Lambeth English Anglo-Catholics Military personnel from London