Geoffrey Franceys Cranswick (1894-1978), Anglican bishop, was born on 10 April 1894 at Petersham, Sydney. Cranswick received a BA from the University of Sydney in 1916. In 1918 Cranswick entered Ridley Hall, Cambridge, UK. He was made deacon in 1920 and an ordained priest in 1921. In 1923 he was appointed to King Edward's School, Chapra, India, a vocational training institution run by the Church Missionary Society. While in India he married Rosamund Mary Robotham in 1927 and they had their only child Peter there in 1933. Cranswick returned to England in 1938 and was employed as organizing secretary for the C.M.S. in the dioceses of Canterbury, Chichester and Rochester. He also took on responsibility for some three hundred missionaries in India and Iran. He served as an air-raid warden World War II.;;In 1943 Cranswick was selected as the eighth bishop of Tasmania. He was consecrated in Westminster Abbey on 25 January 1944 and enthroned in St David's Cathedral, Hobart, on 16 May. Cranswick was an active reformer of conservative elements of Tasmanian church practice and organisation. ;;In 1947 Cranswick attended the general synod of the Anglican Church in China as a member of a delegation led by Archbishop Halse. He visited England for the Lambeth Conference in 1948, also attending the 1948 first assembly of the World Council of Churches. In 1950 he sponsored a visit to Tasmania by Bishop Yashiro, the presiding bishop in Japan. He visited China for a second time in 1956. He was president of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society (1946-62). After retiring in 1962 he became President of the Australia-China Society (1968-73). Cranswick died on 19 July 1978 in Hobart.