Cecil Boutflower
Bishop of Southampton
DioceseDiocese of Winchester
In office1921–1933 (ret.)
PredecessorJames Macarthur
SuccessorKenneth Healey
Other post(s)
Orders
Ordination1887
Consecration1905
by Randall Davidson (Canterbury)
Personal details
Born(1863-08-15)15 August 1863
Died19 March 1942(1942-03-19) (aged 78)
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglican
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford

Cecil Henry Boutflower /ˈboʊflaʊər/[1] (15 August 1863 – 19 March 1942) was an Anglican bishop[2] who served both at home and abroad.[3][4]

He was born at Brathay, Windermere, into a distinguished clerical family, the fourth son of The Ven Samuel Peach Boutflower, Archdeacon of Carlisle, by his second wife, Margaret Redmayne, daughter of Giles Redmayne of Brathay Hall and sister of George Tunstal Redmayne. His elder half-brother The Rev Douglas Samuel Boutflower was Rural Dean of Easington.[5][4] He was educated at Uppingham and Christ Church, Oxford. Ordained in 1887,[6] he began his career with a curacy at St Mary, South Shields[7] and was then successively Chaplain to the Bishop of Durham, Vicar (then Archdeacon) of Barrow-in-Furness before ascending to the episcopate, where he was to serve in three posts until retirement.[8]

In 1904, George Sumner, Bishop suffragan of Guildford in the Diocese of Winchester was ageing but not fully retired, so a new suffragan See of Dorking was erected and Boutflower was appointed Bishop of Dorking early the next year;[9] He was consecrated a bishop by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Westminster Abbey on the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul (25 January) 1905.[10] 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),[11] Sumner was persuaded to resign the See and John Randolph was appointed Bishop of Guildford, succeeding Boutflower in duties and Sumner in the see.[12]

He served in Japan as bishop in South Tokyo until he was appointed again as a suffragan for the Winchester, this time Bishop of Southampton. That See was resigned by his predecessor on 30 April 1921;[13] Boutflower had recently returned to England and held the See by Ascension Day (5 May).[14] He had returned to England in ill-health, held a canonry at Winchester Cathedral with his See; and eventually retired effective 30 September 1933, having been in ill health again for at least seven months prior.[15]

A staunch advocate of missionary service, he married late in life, in 1933, to Joyce Segar, daughter of Halsall Segar, a priest.[3]

References

  1. ^ G.M. Miller, BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names (Oxford UP, 1971), p. 19.
  2. ^ Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 1507.
  3. ^ a b "Obituary: Dr C. H. Boutflower". The Times. 20 March 1942. p. 7.
  4. ^ a b Who Was Who 1897–2007. London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  5. ^ Boutflower, Douglas Samuel (1930). The Boutflower book. Newcastle upon Tyne: Northumberland Press, Ltd. pp. 96–98. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  6. ^ "Ordinations. York. (Official Appointments and Notices)". The Times. 20 December 1887. p. 13.
  7. ^ Details of Parish Register
  8. ^ "Retirement of the Suffragan Bishop Of Southampton". The Times. 2 August 1933. p. 12.
  9. ^ "New suffragan bishop". Church Times. No. 2184. 2 December 1904. p. 735. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 7 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  10. ^ "Consecration of bishops". Church Times. No. 2192. 27 January 1905. p. 99. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 5 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  11. ^ "Church News. General". Church Times. No. 2395. 18 December 1908. p. 834. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 7 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  12. ^ "Church News. General". Church Times. No. 2405. 26 February 1909. p. 266. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 7 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  13. ^ "The episcopate. Two More Bishop Appointed". Church Times. No. 3019. 3 December 1920. p. 543. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 7 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  14. ^ "Church News. General". Church Times. No. 3042. 13 May 1921. p. 458. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 7 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  15. ^ "Church News". Church Times. No. 3676. 7 July 1933. p. 9. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 7 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
Church of England titles Preceded byGeorge Sumneras Bishop suffragan of Guildford Bishop of Dorking 1905 – 1909 Succeeded byJohn Randolphas Bishop suffragan of Guildford Preceded byWilliam Awdry Bishop of South Tokyo 1909 – 1921 Succeeded bySamuel Heaslett Preceded byJames Macarthur Bishop of Southampton 1921–1933 Succeeded byArthur Karney


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