Cecil Horsley

Cecil Douglas Horsley was Bishop of Colombo then Gibraltar in the mid 20th century.

He was born in Gillingham, Kent, on 26 July 1906 and educated at Brighton College and Queens' College, Cambridge, before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with curacies at Romsey Abbey and St Saviour’s, Ealing. After this he was vicar of St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood, before his elevation to the episcopate in 1938. He was translated to Gibraltar in 1947. A sub-prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, he died in post on 10 March 1953.