Cecil Horsley
British Anglican bishop (1903–1953)
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Cecil Douglas Horsley ChStJ (26 July 1903 – 10 March 1953) was a British Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Colombo[1] then of Gibraltar[2] in the mid 20th century.
He was born in Gillingham, Kent, on 26 July 1906[3] to Admiral Arthur John Horsley and Mary Vyse Stoughton.[4] He was educated at Brighton College[5] and Queens' College, Cambridge, before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with curacies at Romsey Abbey and St Saviour's, Ealing.[6] He was ordained priest on Trinity Sunday (15 June) 1930, by Theodore Woods, Bishop of Winchester, at Winchester Cathedral.[7] After this he was vicar of St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood,[8] before his elevation to the episcopate[9] in 1938.[10] He was consecrated Bishop of Colombo on All Saints' Day (17 November) 1938, by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.[11]
He was translated to Gibraltar[12] on 25 September 1947 (invested by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth Palace Chapel).[13] A chaplain[14] and a sub-prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, he died in post on 10 March 1953.[15][16]
