St John Beverley Groser was an English Anglican priest and prominent Christian socialist.
17 Facts About John Groser
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John Groser's 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.
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John Groser 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".
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John Groser briefly served in the British Expeditionary Force and was sent to France as a chaplain to an infantry regiment during the First World War in 1915.
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John Groser was mentioned in dispatches in 1917 and was sent home wounded in 1918 following the Battle of Passchendaele.
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John Groser was awarded the Military Cross for his gallantry during the war in 1918.
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John Groser worked alongside his fellow curate and brother-in-law Jack Bucknall.
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John Groser was dismissed in 1927 due to his left-wing activism, but his licence to officiate was restored the following year when he was made priest-in-charge of Christ Church, Watney Street, Stepney.
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John Groser was part of the community delegation which presented the petition to the Home Office.
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John Groser was present that day, was hit several time by police truncheons and suffered a broken nose.
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John Groser remained there until 1948, when he took up an appointment as warden of the Royal Foundation of St Katharine.
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John Groser was appointed chaplain to the Bishop of London after Henry Montgomery Campbell's translation to the see in 1956.
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John Groser died at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, in 1966, aged 75.
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Outside of his priestly duties, Groser played Thomas Becket in the 1951 film Murder in the Cathedral, based on a play by T S Eliot.
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John Groser advocated a return to the festivals, music, dancing, and processions of the medieval English church, and implemented that to some extent with his own congregations.
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John Groser believed Christianity could establish a "new social ethic" and would produce radical social change.
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John Groser was prominent in the anti-fascist movements of the 1930s.