BINYON, Gilbert Clive

Gilbert Clive Binyon (1880-1952) was a younger brother of Charles Binyon.

Gilbert Binyon was born on 12th July 1880 at Fulham, London, the youngest of nine children (four of whom died in infancy) of the Reverend Frederick Binyon and his wife, Mary (née Dockray).  He was baptised at St Andrew’s, Fulham, on 11th August 1880.  

He was educated at Stapeldon School and Exeter College, Oxford.  At the time of the 1901 census, whilst still a student at Oxford, he was staying with his brother, Charles, in Badsey.  He gained a BA in Theology in 1903 and MA in 1907, and was ordained a priest.  From 1904-1908 he was Curate of St Peter’s, Coventry, from 1908-1910 Curate of Longworth with Charney Bassett.  At the time of the 1911 census he was living at 53 Merstow Green, Evesham, when he was Curate at Evesham from 1911-1913.  Crockford’s Clerical Dictionary then has no further details of Reverend Binyon’s career until 1930 but we know that he was living in the Cheltenham area as he sometimes met up with his brother, Charles.

From 1930 he was Vicar of Bilsdale, Diocese of York.  In 1930, aged 50, Reverend Binyon married Daisy Readman in the Stockton-on-Tees area.  He later became Vicar of Hinton-on-the-Green, Gloucestershire, not far from Badsey.

Reverend Gilbert Binyon wrote a number of books on religion and social issues:  Prayers for the City of God (1915); The Christian Faith and the Social Revolution (1921); The Christian Socialist Movement in England (1931). He was active in the Christian Socialist movement in England.

Reverend Binyon died at The Rectory, Melsonby on 12th June 1952, aged 71, and was buried in the churchyard at St James, Melsonby, two days later.  His address was given as 9 Lightfoot Grove, Stockton-on-Tees, at the time of his death.  His widow died two years later.