Paul Burrough

John Paul Burrough MA, MBE, (5 May 1916 – 27 January 2003) was Bishop of Mashonaland from 1968 to 1981. He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 5 May 1916 and educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He was a skilled rower and was in the Oxford crews that beat Cambridge in the Boat Races of 1937 and 1938.When war came he was commissioned into the Royal Signals and later became a Prisoner of War in Malaya. Ordained in 1951, his first post was a curacy in Aldershot. After this he was a Missionary Priest in Korea and then (his final post before elevation to the Episcopate) Anglican Chaplain to Overseas Peoples in Birmingham. A Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem he died on 27 January 2003