John Groser
St John Beverley Groser (23 June 1890 – 19 March 1966) was an English Anglican priest and prominent Christian socialist. Hannen Swaffer described him as "the best-known priest in the East End [of London]" and Kenneth Leech wrote that he was "one of the most significant Christian socialist figures in twentieth-century Britain". Early life and education Groser was born 23 June 1890 in Beverley, Western Australia, one of the English-born Phoebe (née Wainwright) and the American-born Thomas Eaton Groser's eleven children. His father was an Anglican missionary, serving as the local parish's rector and ministering to people on and around the cattle station where they lived. For the first fifteen years of his life, Groser's education consisted primarily of learning the life of a station hand. In 1905 he was sent to England for his academic education, attending Ellesmere College in Shropshire, a school of the Anglo-Catholic Woodard Foundation. He spent the summers on the estate of two women in Hertfordshire, where, as Kenneth Brill and Margaret 'Espinasse wrote, "His love of Britain and his acceptance of her imperial role were reinforced by the charm of upper-class life in a traditional style". Lacking any worldliness, having led a fairly secluded