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The Right Rev. Bernard Conyngham Corfield was Bishop of Travancore and Cochin from 1938 to 1944.Corfield was born into an ecclesiastical family and educated at St. Lawrence College Ramsgate and Jesus College Cambridge. After World War I service as a temporary Lieutenant in the RFA (during which he was mentioned in despatches twice) he was ordained in 1920. He was Principal of the CMS School at Batala from then until 1928; and then held a similar post at Dera Ismail Khan until 1935.