George Francis Graham-Brown OBE [1] (27 January 1891 – 23 November 1942) was an Anglican bishop [2] in the second quarter of the 20th century. [3]
Graham-Brown was educated at Monkton Combe School [4] and St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
After World War I service with the King's Own Scottish Borderers [5] during which he was wounded in the head and eventually invalided out of the service, [6] and three years as a History Master at his former school, he was ordained in 1922. [7]
He was successively Chaplain, Vice-Principal then Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. In 1932 he was appointed the sixth Bishop in Jerusalem, [8] [9] a post he held for 10 years. He was consecrated a bishop on the Nativity of St John the Baptist (24 June) 1932, at St Paul's Cathedral, by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. [10] He was also a Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. [11]
Having become a Doctor of Divinity (DD), he died in post on 23 November 1942 in a car accident. [12] [13] His grave is preserved in Mount Zion Cemetery, Jerusalem.