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Lionel Payne Crawfurd (1864–1934) was the second Suffragan Bishop of Stafford. Educated at Eton and Balliol College Oxford he was ordained in 1890 and began his career with a curacy at St Cuthbert’s Gateshead. He was then successively Vice Principal of Leeds Clergy School Bishop’s Chaplain in Adelaide Secretary of the Home Missionary Society and incumbent at three parishes before ascending to the Episcopate in 1915 a post he held for 19 years.