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