Geoffrey Lunt


Geoffrey Charles Lester Lunt was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.
Born into an ecclesiastical family and educated at Sherborne and Exeter College, Oxford he was ordained in 1909. His first post was as curate at Christ Church, Clifton, Bristol, after which he was secretary of the Church Missionary Society for Public Schools and Young People's Work then vicar of St Paul's, Bedminster. A chaplain to the Forces in France during World War I he was awarded the Military Cross in the 1918 Birthday Honours. When peace returned he became vicar of All Saints, Northampton then archdeacon of Egypt. From 1928 he was vicar of St Mary's, Portsea, Portsmouth, the largest parish of the city. before his appointment to the episcopate as bishop of Ripon. He was translated to Salisbury in 1946 and died in post two years later.

Family

Brother - Theodore Robert Woosnam Lunt
His wife was Lillias M Sherbrooke
His sister Mary Baskerville Lunt married Hugh Cecil Jenner who was descended from Francis Lascelles and the singer Ann Catley
His son Ronald Geoffrey Lunt was also a war chaplain who served with 7th commando in Libya; and later the rector of Martley.