Cecil Druitt


Cecil Henry Druitt was the first Bishop of Grafton in New South Wales, Australia.
Druitt was educated at Clifton College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, before beginning his ordained ministry as a curate at Christ Church, Torquay. In 1900 he became a lecturer in Hebrew at the Church Mission Society college in Islington. He was later Rector of St Bride's Stretford and then Vicar of St Mary's Overchurch. In 1911 he became Coadjutor Bishop of Grafton and Armidale and, when the diocese was divided in 1914, Bishop of the Grafton portion. He died in post.
A school in Coffs Harbour, Bishop Druitt College, is named after Dr Druitt.