The Rt Rev George Lanchester King, DD

Doctor of Divinity

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 was the second Bishop of Madagascar

Bishop of Madagascar

The Bishop of Madagascar was the Ordinary of the Anglican Church in Madagascar from 1874 until the Diocese was split into three in 1969.-Notes:...

 from 1899 to 1919.

He was born in 1840 and educated at Clare College, Cambridge

Clare College, Cambridge

Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1326, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. Clare is famous for its chapel choir and for its gardens on "the Backs"...

. Ordained in 1884, he began his career with curacies

Curate

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 at St Andrew, Tudhoe Grange

Tudhoe Grange

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 and Holy Trinity, Gateshead

Gateshead

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. He was then Vicar

Vicar

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 of St Mary, South Shields

South Shields

South Shields is a coastal town in Tyne and Wear, England, located at the mouth of the River Tyne to Tyne Dock, and about downstream from Newcastle upon Tyne...

 until 1899 when he was elevated to the Colonial

Colony

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 Episcopate. On his return to England

England

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 he was Secretary

Secretary

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 of the Society for Propagation of the Gospel

USPG

The USPG or United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel is a 300-year-old Anglican missionary organization, formed originally as the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in 1701...

 then a Canon Residentiary

Canon (priest)

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 of Rochester Cathedral

Rochester Cathedral

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until 1940. He died in Woking on 26 January 1941.