Background
Larned, John Insley Blair was born on October 5, 1883 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Walter Cranston and Emma Locke (Scribner) Larned.
Larned, John Insley Blair was born on October 5, 1883 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Walter Cranston and Emma Locke (Scribner) Larned.
Preparatory education Lake Forest (Illinois) Academy and Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1905. Postgraduate Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1905-1908.
Bachelor of Divinity, Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1911.
Doctor of Divinity, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1935. Doctor of Laws, Hobart College, 1946.
Deacon, 1911, priest, 1912, Protestant Episcopal Church. Curate Saint John's Church, Staten Island, New York, 1911-1913. Rector Saint John's Church, Globe, Arizona, 1913-1916, Kingston, New York, 1916-1918.
Dean Pro Cathedral of the Nativity, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1918-1922.
Rector Saint John's Church, Yonkers, New York, 1922-1925. General secretary field department National Council Protestant Episcopal Church, 1925-1929.
Suffragan bishop of Long Island, 1929-1946. Bishop in charge of America Episcopal Churches in Europe, since 1947.
Clubs: Harvard (New York).
Married Elizabeth Virginia Jenkins, June 11, 1914. Children: Emma Elizabeth, Frances Virginia, John Insley Blair.