Geoffrey Charles Lester Lunt MC (1885–1948) was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century. Born into an ecclesiastical family and educated at Sherborne and Exeter College, Oxford he was ordained in 1909. His first post was as curate at Christ Church, Clifton, Bristol, after which he was secretary of the Church Missionary Society for Public Schools and Young People's Work then vicar of St Paul's, Bedminster. While at Bedminster he was freed to join the Army Chaplain's Department, and served in France and Flanders with the 17th Division on a one-year contract. He experienced the Battles of Arras and Passchendaele, witnessed cavalry attacks, bombardments, and the effects of gas, and helped with surgical operations, soup kitchens and mass burials. He was awarded the Military Cross for rescuing wo