Sydney Alfred Bill was the Bishop of Lucknow from 1939 until 1947.^[1] He was born in 1884 and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.^[2] Ordained in 1908 his first post was as Curate at St George’s Birmingham.^[3] He then emigrated to India in 1911 where he began his long association with the Lucknow Diocese, where he was successively the Bishop's Chaplain, Canon Residentiary at All Saint’s Cathedral^[4] and Archdeacon before his elevation to the episcopate. On returning to England he was Vicar of Instow for a further 8 years.