Education
William Lefroy was educated at its Trinity College and ordained in 1864.
William Lefroy was educated at its Trinity College and ordained in 1864.
Born in Dublin in 1836, he was eldest of the four children of Isaac and Isabella Lefroy. Following a curacy at Christ Church, Cork he was Vicar of Street Andrew’s, Liverpool, Rural Dean of Liverpool (South) and later Archdeacon of Warrington. Lefroy was devoted to Switzerland, and he was one of the summer chaplains of the Intercontinental Church Society annually from 1867 to the year of his death.
He helped to build the English churches at Zermatt, Riffelalp, Gletsch, and Adelboden.
Lefroy was twice married. One of them was the wife of Sir Percy Bates, fourth baronet.
In 1889 he became Dean of Norwich, a post he held until his death on 11 August 1909.
From 1875 to 1878 he was a member of the Alpine Club, but although fond of mountain climbing made no great expeditions.
