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George Hollis (bishop)

George Arthur Hollis was a British Anglican bishop. He was bishop of Taunton from 1931 to 1944.

Early life
Hollis was born on 17 April 1868. He was educated at Keble College, Oxford. ==Ordained ministry==
Ordained ministry
Hollis was ordained in the Church of England in 1894. He began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St James Wednesbury, followed by a spell as Perpetual Curate of St Bartholomew Armley. After this he was Vicar of Headingley and then the principal of Wells Theological College, before a 14-year stint as bishop of Taunton. ==Personal life==
Personal life
He married Mary Margaret Church (1874-1941), herself the daughter of an Anglican minister, at Wells Cathedral on 5 July 1898. Their son Christopher was MP for Devizes from 1945 to 1955, and another son Roger was director general of MI5 from 1956 to 1965. Of grandchildren: Adrian Hollis, Roger's son, was a chess champion and Classics don; while another is, like George, a bishop: Christopher's son, Crispian was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Portsmouth from 1989 to 2012. ==Death==
Death
He died on 20 March 1944. ==References==
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