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19th and 20th-century British Anglican bishop For the English track cyclist, see Cyril Bardsley (cyclist).

Cyril Charles Bowman Bardsley (13 February 1870 – 20 December 1940) was an Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century.

Cyril Bardsley
Bishop of Leicester
DioceseDiocese of Leicester
In office1927–1940
SuccessorGuy Smith
Other post(s)Bishop of Peterborough (1924–1927)
Personal details
Born(1870-02-13)13 February 1870
Greenwich, London
Died20 December 1940(1940-12-20) (aged 70)
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom
DenominationAnglican
Alma materMarlborough College, New College

Bardsley was educated at Marlborough College and New College, Oxford and ordained in 1895. His first post was as a curate at Huddersfield Parish Church. He then held incumbencies at Nottingham and St Helen's, Merseyside. He then became the secretary of the Church Missionary Society until his ordination to the episcopate as the Bishop of Peterborough in 1924. In 1927, he was translated to be the first diocesan Bishop of Leicester in the modern era. Described in his Times obituary as "a pastoral Bishop who lived for nothing but to serve his Master and minister to his people", he died shortly after resigning his see in Tunbridge Wells.

His nephew was Cuthbert Bardsley, who was Suffragan Bishop of Croydon from 1947 to 1956, and Bishop of Coventry from 1956 till 1976. He was also related to John Bardsley, Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1887 to 1891, and Bishop of Carlisle from 1891 to 1914.

References

  1. New Bishop Of Peterborough. Dr. Bardsley Appointed The Times Friday, 23 Nov 1923; pg. 14; Issue 43506; col G
  2. Ecclesiastical News New Bishop Of Leicester The Times Saturday, 13 Apr 1940; pg. 9; Issue 48589; col D
  3. “Who was Who” 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  4. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
  5. Church website
  6. British history on-line
  7. Details of tenure
  8. National Archives
  9. Bishops of Peterborough
  10. Monday, 23 Dec 1940; pg. 7; Issue 48806; col G Obituary Dr Cyril Bardsley
  11. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1941
  12. Donald Coggan, Cuthbert Bardsley: Bishop, Evangelist, Pastor, Collins, London, 1989. ISBN 0 00 215094-8
Church of England titles
Preceded byTheodore Woods Bishop of Peterborough
1924–1927 		Succeeded byClaude Blagden
New title Bishop of Leicester
1927–1940 		Succeeded byGuy Smith
Bishops of Peterborough
Early modern
Late modern
Bishops of Leicester
for the ancient Mercian bishops, see Bishop of Lincoln; for the modern suffragans, see Bishop of Leicester (suffragan)


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