George Lefroy

George Alfred Lefroy^[1] (August 1854 – 1 January 1919) was an eminent Anglican priest and missionary in India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

George Alfred Lefroy

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Biography

Lefroy was born into an eminent Irish family in County Down in August 1854: his father was Jeffrey Lefroy, Dean of Dromore, and his grandfather, Thomas Langlois Lefroy, Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, Ireland.^[2] He was educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge and ordained in 1879.^[3] He joined the Cambridge Mission to Delhi the same year and eventually became head of the SPG Mission in Delhi.^[4] In 1899 he became Bishop of Lahore.^[5] Translated to become Bishop of Calcutta in 1912.^[6] Lefroy was known for his regular participation in public religious debates and for his lectures among Muslims and Hindus.^[7] He also joined fellow missionary C. F. Andrews in opposing western racism towards Indians.^[8] He became a Doctor of Divinity (DD) and died in post on 1 January 1919.^[9]

Works

• Lefroy, George Alfred (1884). The leather-workers of Daryaganj . Delhi: Cambridge Mission to Delhi.