Cyril Forster Garbett

Cyril Forster Garbett (born Feb. 6, 1875, Tongham, Surrey, Eng.—died Dec. 31, 1955, York, Yorkshire) was the archbishop of York and an ecclesiastical writer who promoted a social conscience among the membership of the Church of England by his reports on the human misery in the areas he administered as bishop, particularly London’s Southwark district (1919–32). Educated at Keble College, Oxford, Garbett was curate (1900–09) and vicar (1909–19) of a then-important Portsmouth parish before becoming...