Robert Crosthwaite

Robert Jarratt Crosthwaite (13 October 1837, Wellington, Somerset – 9 September 1925, Bolton Percy) was the inaugural Bishop of Beverley in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.[1]

For the American politician, see Robert H. Crosthwaite.

Born in Wellington, Somerset, on 13 October 1837,[2] Robert Crosthwaite was the son of Benjamin Crosthwaite, priest and canon.[3] He was educated at Leeds Grammar School[4] and Trinity College, Cambridge.[5] Ordained in 1862, he began his career with a curacy at North Cave after which he was Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of York. Following incumbencies in Brayton and York he was Rector of Bolton Percy[6] (1885–1923) and appointed Archdeacon of York in 1884. Five years later he became a Suffragan Bishop to assist within the Diocese of York and served to 1923. He was consecrated a bishop on 11 June 1889, by William Thomson, Archbishop of York, at York Minster.[7] He became a Doctor of Divinity; and died on 9 September 1925 at Bolton Percy.[5][8]

References
  1. BoB web-site Archived 2006-02-10 at the Wayback Machine
  2. DOB/DOD
  3. “Who was Who”1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  4. School History
  5. "Crosthwaite, Robert Jarratt (CRST856RJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  6. Materials within The National Archives
  7. "Consecration of suffragan bishops". Church Times (#1377). 14 June 1889. p. 559. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 9 March 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
  8. The Times, Friday, 11 September 1925; p. 14; Issue 44064; col C Obituary- Bishop Crosthwaite
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