Charles Saunders (bishop)

Charles John Godfrey Saunders (1884 – 16 October 1973) was the Bishop of Lucknow from 1928 until 1938. He was born in 1884 and educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St John’s College, Oxford.[1] Ordained in 1912 he emigrated to India where he worked as a missionary with the SPG. From 1921 to 1925 he was Staff Chaplain at the headquarters of the Indian Army followed by another three years in a similar post serving the Metropolitan of Calcutta[2] before his appointment to the Episcopate. He was consecrated a bishop on St James's Day (25 July) 1928 at Allahabad.[3]

On returning to England he was an Assistant Bishop of Chichester, along with a succession of Sussex incumbencies: Uckfield[4] (1938–42), Barcombe (1942–47) and West Lavington (1947–53); he retired in 1953.[5] His last post was an honorary one, as part of the hospital chaplaincy team, in which capacity he wrote A History of the United Bristol Hospitals (Bristol, Board of Governors of the United Bristol Hospitals, 1960), in retirement at Bristol where he died on 16 October 1973.