John Randolph (Bishop of Guildford)

John Hugh Granville Randolph (20 January 1866 – 21 March 1936) was the Bishop of Guildford (a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Winchester) and then Dean of Salisbury in the Church of England in the first decades of the 20th century.

Randolph was born into an ecclesiastical family: his father was a priest, Leveson Cyril Randolph. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was ordained into the priesthood in 1890. His first post was a curacy in Margate, after which he was Vicar of All Saints’, Westbrook, then St Mark’s, North End, before his appointment to the episcopate. He became a Doctor of Divinity (DD).