Background
Easthaugh was born on 22 December 1897 in South London, England.
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Cyril Easthaugh
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He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Bachelor) degree in 1928. As per tradition, his Bachelor was promoted to a Master of Arts (Master of Arts (Oxfordshire)) degree in 1932.
Career
He was Bishop of Kensington from 1949 to 1961 and Bishop of Peterborough from 1961 to 1972. The family name had been changed from Eastaugh to Easthaugh in 1883. He left school at 17 to serve in the army during World War I.
After the war, he worked in business before feeling the call to the priesthood.
He then matriculated into Christ Church, Oxford to study theology.
He returned to his theological college (Cuddesdon) to serve as chaplain until 1934. He then served as vice-principal until 1935.
He returned to parish ministry and became vicar of Street John the Divine"s Kennington. He spent fourteen years there, before his consecration to the episcopate in 1949.
In 1941, the church building was struck by a bomb during the London Blitz.
On 1 November 1949, he was consecrated a bishop at Westminster Abbey by Geoffrey Fisher, the then Archbishop of Canterbury. He was appointed Bishop of Kensington, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of London. In 1961, he became the Bishop of Peterborough until his retirement in 1971.
Foreign a decade he continued as chairman of the Christian Evidence Society.
He was Life President of the Guild of All Souls, an Anglican devotional society. Easthaugh died on 16 December 1988.
On 28 January 1989, a Requiem Mass was held for him at Street Stephen"s, Gloucester Road, London.
Achievements
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Having won a scholarship, he was educated at Archbishop Tenison"s Grammar School (now Archbishop Tenison"s Church of England School) which was then a grammar school in London. He was Commissioned into the South Staffordshire Regiment during World War I. He was awarded the Military Cross (Military Cross) in 1917, at the age of 19.
