Cecil Henry Boutflower was an Anglican bishop who served both at home and abroad. He was born into a distinguished clerical family at Brathay

Brathay

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, Windermere

Windermere

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 in 1863 and educated at Uppingham

Uppingham School

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 and Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church, Oxford

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. Ordained in 1887 he began his career with a Curacy

Curate

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 at St Mary, South Shields

South Shields

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 and was then successively Chaplain

Chaplain

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 to the Bishop of Durham

Brooke Foss Westcott

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, Vicar

Vicar

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 (then Archdeacon

Archdeacon

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) of Barrow-in-Furness

Barrow-in-Furness

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  before ascending to the Episcopate

Suffragan bishop

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, where he was to serve in three posts until retirement . A staunch advocate of missionary

Missionary

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service , he married late in life and died on 19 March 1942.