John Paul Burrough MBE (5 May 1916 – 27 January 2003) was Bishop of Mashonaland from 1968 to 1981.
Background
He was born into an ecclesiastical family[1] on 5 May 1916 and educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[2] He was a skilled rower and was in the Oxford crews that beat Cambridge in the Boat Races of 1937 and 1938.[3][circular reference]
During the Second World War, he was commissioned in 1940[4] into the Royal Signals. In 1942 he became a prisoner of war in Malaya. In 1946 he was appointed a member of the military division of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)[5] for his leadership in the PoW camps.
Ordained in 1951,[6] his first post was a curacy in Aldershot. After this he was a Missionary Priest in Korea[7] and then (his final post before elevation to the episcopate[8]) Anglican Chaplain to Overseas Peoples in Birmingham. During this time he brought together a successful Trinidadian steel band and enabled them to find engagements, including a regular annual performance at the summer ball of his Alma Mater, St Edmund Hall Oxford. He was Bishop of Mashonaland[9] in the Province of Central Africa from 1968[10] to 1981. On his return to England, he was Rector of Empingham and an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Peterborough, 1981–1985.[2] A Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem,[11] he died on 27 January 2003.[12]