George Cruickshank (bishop)


George Craig Cruikshank was the seventh Bishop of Waiapu from 1945 to 1946.
He was born in 1881 and educated at Keble College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1908 and was a curate at St Hilda's Church, Darlington and then vicar of Whangarei. During this time he was also a chaplain to the first New Zealand Expeditionary Force. From 1923 to 1932 he was vicar of Remuera. In 1932 he became Dean of Dunedin, a post he held until his ordination to the episcopate.