The Most Rev

Most Reverend

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  Leonard James Beecher CMG, ARCS

Associate of the Royal College of Science

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, MA

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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, DD

Doctor of Divinity

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 was an Anglican archbishop

Archbishop

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 in the third quarter of the 20th century.

He was born on 21 May 1906, educated at St Olave's Grammar School

St Olave's Grammar School

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 and Imperial College London

Imperial College London

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 and ordained in 1929. He was a CMS Missionary

Church Mission Society

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 in the Diocese of Mombasa

Anglican Church of Kenya

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 from 1930, working in the Highlands. He rose in time to be Archdeacon

Archdeacon

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, Canon

Canon (priest)

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 and Assistant Bishop

Assistant Bishop

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 of the Diocese

Diocese

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 before elevation to the Episcopate as Bishop of Mombasa, then Archbishop

Archbishop

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 of East Africa

East Africa

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. A prominent member of the Royal African Society, he retired in 1970 and died on 16 December 1987. He is buried in the cemetery

Cemetery

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 at All Saints, Limuru

Limuru

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