| Type: | Bishop |
| Frank Houghton | |
| Bishop of East Szechwan | |
| Church: | Church in China |
| Diocese: | East Szechwan |
| Enthroned: | 1936 |
| Term End: | 1940 |
| Successor: | Kenneth Bevan |
| Ordination: | 1917 |
| Birth Place: | Stafford, Staffordshire, England |
| Nationality: | British |
| Religion: | Anglican |
| Spouse: | Dorothy Cassels |
| Alma Mater: | University of London |
Frank Houghton (1894 - 1972) was an Anglican missionary bishop and author.
Houghton was born in Stafford[1] and educated at the University of London and ordained in 1917. He held curacies at St Benedict, Everton and All Saints, Preston before heading to Republican China as a missionary with the China Inland Mission in 1920. In 1923 he married Dorothy Cassels, the daughter of William Cassels, who had been a member of the Cambridge Seven and became a bishop in China. Houghton was general director of the China Inland Mission at the time when the Mission had to leave China in 1951.[2] He was Bishop of East Szechwan from 1937 to 1940.[3] Returning to England he held incumbencies at St Marks, New Milverton, Leamington and St Peter's, Drayton, Banbury. He retired in 1963 and died on 25 January 1972.[4]
Houghton's books include The Two Hundred (1932); China Calling (1936); If We Believe (1952); Amy Carmichael of Dohnavur (1953); The Fire Burns On (1964); and Living Your Life (1966).[5]
He also wrote the hymns "Facing a Task Unfinished", "My Lord, Who in the Desert Fed", "O Thou Who Dost Direct My Feet" and "Thou Who Wast Rich Beyond All Splendour".[6]