Frank Houghton

This article is about the English bishop. For the Canadian naval officer, see Frank Houghton (rear admiral).

Frank Houghton
Bishop of East Szechwan
Frank Houghton, c. 1930s
Church	Church in China
Diocese	East Szechwan
Installed	1936
Term ended	1940
Predecessor	John Holden (as Bishop of Western China)
Successor	Kenneth Bevan
Orders
Ordination	1917
Personal details
Born	1894 (1894) Stafford, Staffordshire, England
Died	1972 (aged 77–78)
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglican
Spouse	Dorothy Cassels
Alma mater	University of London

Frank Houghton (1894–1972) was an Anglican missionary bishop and author.

Biography

Houghton was born in Stafford and educated at the University of London and ordained in 1917. He held curacies at St Benedict, Everton and All Saints, Preston before heading to Republican China as a missionary with the China Inland Mission in 1920. In 1923 he married Dorothy Cassels, the daughter of William Cassels, who had been a member of the Cambridge Seven and became a bishop in China. Houghton was general director of the China Inland Mission at the time when the Mission had to leave China in 1951. He was Bishop of East Szechwan from 1937 to 1940. Returning to England he held incumbencies at St Marks, New Milverton, Leamington and St Peter's, Drayton, Banbury. He retired in 1963 and died on 25 January 1972.

Works

Houghton's books include The Two Hundred (1932); China Calling (1936); If We Believe (1952); Amy Carmichael of Dohnavur (1953); The Fire Burns On (1964); and Living Your Life (1966).

He also wrote the hymns "Facing a Task Unfinished", "My Lord, Who in the Desert Fed", "O Thou Who Dost Direct My Feet" and "Thou Who Wast Rich Beyond All Splendour".

See also

• Anglicanism in Sichuan