Type: | Bishop |
Honorific Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
Eric Graham | |
Bishop of Brechin | |
Church: | Scottish Episcopal Church |
Diocese: | Brechin |
Term: | 1944-1959 |
Retired: | --> |
Predecessor: | Kenneth Mackenzie |
Successor: | John Sprott |
Ordination: | 1913 |
Consecration: | 1944 |
Birth Date: | 14 December 1888 |
Tomb: | --> |
Eric Graham (14 December 1888 – 18 January 1964[1] [2]) was an Anglican bishop in the mid 20th century.[3]
Graham was born into an ecclesiastical family, a branch of the Dukes of Montrose settled in Ireland in the 18th century;[4] his father was Malcolm Graham, sometime Archdeacon of Stoke-upon-Trent.[5] Graham was educated at Cheltenham College and Oriel College, Oxford, and ordained after a period of study at Wells Theological College in 1913.[6] He was Vice-Principal of Salisbury Theological College, then Fellow and Dean of Oriel College, Oxford. Next he was Rector of Boyton-cum-Sherrington and after that Principal of Cuddesdon Theological College. In 1944[7] he became Bishop of Brechin,[8] a post he held until 1959.
In 1919, Graham married Phyllis Norton Buckle, daughter of Christopher Reginald Buckle, a major-general in the British army.[9] They had six recorded children, four sons and two daughters;[10] [11] who include the noted crossword compiler John Galbraith Graham.