Skip to content ↓

View entry

Back to search results

Name: BOSTOCK, Peter Geoffrey (Ven.)

image of individualimage of individual

Nee: son of Geoffrey Rowley Bostock

Birth Date: 24.12.1911 Hampstead

Death Date: 28.5.1999 Oxford

First Date: 1935

Last Date: 1959

Profession: Missionary

Area: Kaloleni, Nairobi, Limuru

Married: At Mombasa Cathedral 13 Dec 1937 Elisabeth Rose b. Oxford 25 Nov 1912 Oxford, d. 23 Nov 2002 Oxford

Children: Richard Mark (1939); Rosemary Joy (Averley) (5 Mar 1941 Kenya-1975 Oxford); Felicity Jane (Mollison) (5 Mar 1941 Kenya, twin); Geoffrey Thomas (1949)

Book Reference: Foster, Web, Telegraph Obit.

School: Charterhouse and Queen's College, Oxford

General Information:

Foster - A full CMS Missionary. He arrived in Kenya in September 1935 and was posted to Kaloleni, where he was involved in educational and pastoral work. He was priested 12 December 1937. On 13 December 1937 he married Miss Elizabeth Rose, a full CMS Missionary. ….. In 1949 he was the principal of St. Paul's United Theological College at Limuru. In October 1950 Bostock was General Secretary of the African Council. In 1952 he was made a Canon in the Diocese of Mombasa and he stood in as Secretary to the CMS Kenya Mission. In 1953 he was appointed to be an Archdeacon responsible for pastoral work in Central and Rift Valley Provinces as well as being Educational Secretary to the Diocese and Clerical Secretary to the Diocesan Synod. In 1955 he was appointed to be Missionary Adviser for Kiambu and Rift Valley as well as being appointed Vicar-General of the Diocese. While in Kenya he wrote a number of books and pamphlets on a variety of subjects. On 30 June 1959 he resigned as was appointed Archdeacon of Doncaster
Web - Oxford University swimming team 1931-32
Wikipedia He was educated at Charterhouse and The Queen's College, Oxford. After a period of study at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford he was ordained Deacon in 1935 in Mombasa Cathedral  and Priest in 1937. He was a CMS Missionary in Kenya from 1935 to 1958; and Archdeacon of Mombasa from 1953 until 1958. Returning to England he was Vicar of High Melton and Archdeacon of Doncaster from 1959 to 1967. Finally he was Assistant Secretary of the Missionary and Ecumenical Council of the Church Assembly until his retirement in 1971.
Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Sheffield, Yorks 1962 - 1967.
Deputy Secretary to the Board of Missionary and Unity General Synod 1971 - 1973.
Clergy Appointments Advisor 1974 - 1976.
Permitted to officiate at the Diocese of Oxford 1977.

Back to search results