Paul Burrough
John Paul Burrough
Bishop of Mashonaland
from 1968 to 1981.
Background
He was born into an ecclesiastical family[1] on 5 May 1916 and educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[2] He was a skilled rower and was in the Oxford crews that beat Cambridge in the Boat Races of 1937 and 1938.[3][circular reference]
During the
Royal Signals. In 1942 he became a prisoner of war in Malaya. In 1946 he was appointed a member of the military division of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)[5]
for his leadership in the PoW camps.
References
- ^ thePeerage.com
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7 [1]
- ^ List of Oxford University Boat Race crews
- ^ "No. 35008". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 December 1940. p. 6924.
- ^ "No. 37595". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 June 1946. p. 2735.
- ISBN 0-19-200008-X
- SPCK1956
- ^ NCIDMA[permanent dead link]
- ^ Armourial of Zimbabwe and Rhodesia
- ^ The Times, Saturday, 27 April 1968; pg. 4; Issue 57237; col E New Bishop of Mashonaland
- ^ "No. 44815". The London Gazette (Supplement). 25 March 1969. p. 3181.
- ^ "The Right Reverend Paul Burrough". The Daily Telegraph. 28 January 2003. Archived from the original on 23 March 2023.