Cyril Garbett

Cyril Forster Garbett GCVO, PC (6 February 1875 – 31 December 1955) was an Anglican bishop. He was the Archbishop of York from 1942 to 1955.

Early life

Garbett was born in the village of Tongham in Surrey, next to Aldershot in Hampshire, the son of the vicar of Tongham. At the age of 11 he was sent to Portsmouth Grammar School and then to Keble College, Oxford, in 1894. After this he went to Cuddesdon Theological College to study theology and prepare for ordination.

Garbett was ordained in 1899 as a deacon and was sent to be a curate of St Mary's Portsea, where he was ordained to the priesthood in 1901 and remained until 1919, after 1909 as its vicar. In 1911 he was joined at Portsea by the newly ordained George Armitage Chase, who would later serve Garbett after his ordination to the episcopate, as examining chaplain.

Garbett was consecrated as the Bishop of Southwark and remained in this position until his translation as the Bishop of Winchester in 1932 before, in 1942, becoming the Archbishop of York.