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.
Born in Wellington, Somerset, on 13 October 1837, Robert Crosthwaite was the son of Benjamin Crosthwaite, priest and canon. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge. 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 (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. He became a Doctor of Divinity; and died on 9 September 1925 at Bolton Percy.
References
- BoB web-site Archived 2006-02-10 at the Wayback Machine
- DOB/DOD
- “Who was Who”1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- School History
- ^ "Crosthwaite, Robert Jarratt (CRST856RJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 123.
- Materials within The National Archives
- "Consecration of suffragan bishops". Church Times. No. 1377. 14 June 1889. p. 559. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 9 March 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
- The Times, Friday, 11 September 1925; p. 14; Issue 44064; col C Obituary- Bishop Crosthwaite
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