Cyril Golding-Bird

The Right Reverend                    Cyril Golding-Bird
Bishop of Mauritius
Church	Anglican
Diocese	Mauritius
In office	1919–1930
Predecessor	Francis Gregory
Successor	Hugh Otter-Barry
Other posts	Bishop of Kalgoorlie, Australia (1914–1919) Archdeacon of Dorking (1930–1936) Archdeacon of Surrey (1936–1949)
Personal details
Born	(1876-09-18)18 September 1876 London
Died
Nationality	British

Cyril Henry Golding-Bird (18 September 1876–9 April 1955) was an Anglican bishop in the early decades of the 20th century.

He was born on 18 September 1876 and educated at Merchant Taylors' and Lincoln College, Oxford. Ordained in 1897 he was initially a curate at All Saint’s Margaret Street and then a missionary priest in South Africa.

After time as vicar of St Barnabas', Dover, he began a long period of service overseas: first as dean of the Falkland Islands; then a similar post in Newcastle, New South Wales following which he was ordained to the episcopate as Bishop of Kalgoorlie.

Translated to Mauritius in 1919, he returned to the England eleven years later to become an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Guildford and as Archdeacon of Dorking, then of Surrey, until his final resignation in 1949, before his death on 9 April 1955.

External links

• All Saint’s Margaret Street

Anglican Communion titles
New title	Bishop of Kalgoorlie 1914–1919	Succeeded by William Elsey
Preceded by Francis Gregory	Bishop of Mauritius 1919–1930	Succeeded by Hugh Otter-Barry