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[[File:Geoffrey_Cuming.png|thumb|right|Geoffrey Cuming as a canon]]
'''Geoffrey John Cuming''' (9 September 1917{{snd}}24 March 1988) was a [[Church of England]] clergyman, [[Liturgics|liturgist]], and [[music historian]]. After being permanently injured during his [[British Army]] service prior to the [[Battle of Arnhem]], Cuming was ordained a priest. He authored and edited several nonfiction texts on music and Christianity.
During and after Second World War, Cuming collaborated with Francis F. Clough to compile the ''World's Encyclopedia of Recorded Music'', a major [[discography]] first published in 1952. On [[Christian liturgy]], Cuming's work included ''The Durham Book'' on [[John Cosin]]'s 17th-century proposed liturgy and ''A History of Anglican Liturgy''. His works on [[Early Christian]] liturgies included collaboration with [[Ronald Jasper]] and a posthumously published text on the [[Liturgy of Saint Mark]].
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==Early life==
Geoffrey John Cuming was born in [[Gilston]], [[Hertfordshire]],
As a member of the [[British Army]]'s [[Non-Combatant Corps]] during the [[Second World War]]<ref name=One/>–where he was first in a [[bomb disposal]] and later in parachute ambulance unit–Cuming participated in a parachute drop before the 1944 [[Battle of Arnhem]], resulting in a leg injury and painful, lifelong back injury.<ref name=Bayley>{{cite news|title=Canon dies on U.S. trip|first=Louisa|last=Bayley|work=[[Leicester Mercury]]|date=26 March 1988|page=41}}</ref><ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news|title=Obituaries: Canon G. Cuming|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=28 March 1988|page=21}}</ref> Chadwick suggested that this back injury may have contributed to both his reservedness and sympathy for others' suffering. Cuming trained at [[Westcott House, Cambridge]], before being ordained as a priest in the [[Church of England]], serving as a pastor.<ref name=Foreword>{{cite book|title=The Identity of Anglican Worship|editor-link1=Kenneth Stevenson|editor-first1=Kenneth|editor-last1=Stevenson|editor-link2=Bryan D. Spinks|editor-first2=Bryan|editor-last2=Spinks|publisher=[[Cassell (publisher)|Mowbray]]|date=1991|isbn=0-264-67252-6|chapter=Foreword|author-link=Henry Chadwick (theologian)|first=Henry|last=Chadwick|pages=vii–viii}}</ref><ref name=Shaped/>{{rp|150}}
==Career==
[[File:St.John the Baptists church (geograph 2264285).jpg|thumb|alt=Photograph of St John the Baptist's Church in Billesdon|Cuming became the Vicar of Billesdon (church pictured) in 1955.]]
Prior to and during the Second World War, Cuming maintained a record of newly released musical records. Working off the 1936 [[discography]] ''The Gramophone Shop Encyclopaedia of Recorded Music'' by Robert Donaldson Darrell.<ref name=CumingDisc>{{cite journal|url=https://www.arsc-audio.org/journals/v19/v19n1p11-15.pdf|title='''The World's Encyclopaedia of Recorded Music'': Some Reminiscences|publisher=[[Association for Recorded Sound Collections]]|journal=ARSC Journal|date=1987|volume=19|issue=1|first=Geoffrey|last=Cuming}}</ref>
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