George Arthur Hollis (17 April 1868 – 20 March 1944) was a British Anglican bishop. He was bishop of Taunton (a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Bath and Wells) from 1931 to 1944. [1]
George Arthur Hollis (17 April 1868 – 20 March 1944) was a British Anglican bishop. He was bishop of Taunton (a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Bath and Wells) from 1931 to 1944. [1]
Hollis was born on 17 April 1868. He was educated at Keble College, Oxford. [2]
Hollis was ordained in the Church of England in 1894. He began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St James Wednesbury , [3] followed by a spell as Perpetual Curate of St Bartholomew Armley . [4] After this he was Vicar of Headingley and then the principal of Wells Theological College, before a 14-year stint as bishop of Taunton.
He married Mary Margaret Church (1874-1941), herself the daughter of an Anglican minister, at Wells Cathedral on 5 July 1898. Their son Christopher was MP for Devizes from 1945 to 1955, [5] and another son Roger was director general of MI5 from 1956 to 1965. Of grandchildren: Adrian Hollis, Roger's son, was a chess champion and Classics don; while another is, like George, a bishop: Christopher's son, Crispian is the Roman Catholic bishop of Portsmouth.
He died on 20 March 1944.
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Portraits of George Hollis at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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