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(Alfred) Morris Gelsthorpe DSO DD (26 February 1892 – 22 August 1968) was the first Bishop in the Sudan.He was educated at The King’s School Canterbury and Hatfield College. He served in the Artists Rifles during World War One. He was ordained in 1920 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Gabriel’s Sunderland. He became a CMS Missionary in 1923.