Geoffrey Franceys Cranswick (10 April 1894 – 19 July 1978) was the Anglican Bishop of Tasmania from 1944 to 1963. Cranswick was educated at The King's School, Parramatta, Sydney Church of England Grammar School and the University of Sydney. He was made deacon at Michaelmas 1920 (3 October) and ordained priest the Michaelmas following (2 October 1921) — both times by John Watts Ditchfield, Bishop of Chelmsford, at Chelmsford Cathedral — to a curacy at West Ham before being with the Church Mission Society (CMS) in Bengal to 1937 and then Principal of King Edward's School Chapra until his ordination to the episcopate to serve as Bishop of Tasmania. He was consecrated a bishop on the Feast of the Conversion of Paul the Apostle 1944 (25 January) at Westminster Abbey by William Temple, Archbisho
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