George Cruickshank (bishop)

George Craig Cruikshank (1881 – October 1951) was the seventh Bishop of Waiapu from 1945 to 1946.

He was born in 1881 and educated at Keble College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1908 and was a curate at St Hilda's Darlington and then vicar of Whangarei. During this time he was also a chaplain to the first New Zealand Expeditionary Force. From 1923 to 1932 he was vicar of Remuera. In 1932 he became Dean of Dunedin, a post he held until his ordination to the episcopate.