Rev. John Tyndale-Biscoe was born in Gulmarg, Kashmir, July 2, 1908. His father was a missionary educator in northern India. While studying theology at Westcott House, Cambridge, in 1931, he encountered the Oxford Group and became enthralled with Frank Buchman's message. In 1938 he was invited by Bishop George West (see John Tyndale-Biscoe's biography, featured on this site) to be his Chaplain in Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar).
He married Margaret Mooring Aldridge, of Bournemouth, UK, in Calcutta Cathedral in 1939. (Next door to the Bishop's residence, where John and Margaret (Margie) lived with the Bishop and his wife, Grace, there was a Buddhist monastery. The Abbott and several monks of that monastery were the first non-Christians to attend a Moral Re-Armament conference.). When the Japanese took control of Burma in 1941, John and Margie were with the Wests in India and became stranded there for the duration of WWII. They returned to the UK, with their 2 children, Rachel and Stephen, in 1946, and were persuaded to take up full time work with MRA. Their youngest son, Philip, was born in 1947.
In 1960, John took a living as Rector of Gilston-with-Eastwick, in Essex, where they remained until 1976. From 1969 onwards, John became profoundly engaged in the charismatic movement in the Anglican communion and for several years large numbers of people flocked from far and wide to attend weekly healing meetings at the church in Eastwich. In 1987, he and Margie moved to Frinton, Essex, where they both passed away in 1998.
