Eric Treacy
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Bishop Eric Treacy MBE (1907 – 13 May 1978) was an English railway photographer[1] and Bishop of Wakefield.
Treacy was born in London. In 1932 he was made a Deacon in the Church of England[2], and also took up railway photography, being inspired by a visit to Liverpool Lime Street. His photographic work appeared in various magazines during the 1930s.
His photography was interrupted by being an Army Padre during the Second World War, for which he was awarded an MBE. He published his first book of images in 1946. On demobilisation he became Rector of Keighley and in 1949 was appointed Archdeacon of Halifax. In 1961 he became Suffragan Bishop of Pontefract and in 1968 he was made Bishop of Wakefield[3], a post in which he remained until he retired in 1976.
Treacy died from a heart attack on Appleby Station on the Settle-Carlisle Railway waiting for BR 92220 Evening Star. A plaque is there to his memory. He is buried at St Kentigern's Church Crosthwaite, Keswick.
The Treacy Collection of 12,000 photographs forms part of the National Railway Museum's archive of over 1.4 million images.
[edit] Bibliography
The following are photographs albums of Treacy's work:
- Eric Treacy. (1976) Roaming the Northern Rails ISBN 0-7110-0655-5
- Eric Treacy (1977) Roaming the East Coast Main Line Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0812-4
- Eric Treacy (1969) Lure of Steam Ian Allan ISBN 0-7110-0098-0, 1980 reprint ISBN 0-7110-0900-7
- Eric Treacy (1981, reprint(?) Glory of Steam Ian Allan ISBN 0-7110-1171-0
- G. Freeman Allen, (1982) Great Railway Photographs by Eric Treacy Peerage Books, London
- P.B.Whitehouse & G.Freeman Allen (1982) Eric Treacy: Railway Photographer ISBN 0-7153-8367-1
- P.Whitehouse & J.Powell (1985) Treacy's Routes North
- P.Whitehouse & J.Powell (1990) Treacy's British Rail
- Eric Treacy (1991 reprint) Portrait of Steam ISBN 1-85648-010-0
- Eric Treacy (1994) The Best of Eric Treacy Atlantic Transport Publishers ISBN 1-85877-007-6
- David Jenkinson & Patrick Whitehouse (1988) Eric Treacy's LMS Oxford Publishing Company ISBN 0-86093-381-4
[edit] Notes
- ^ Railway credentials
- ^ Crockford's clerical directory,(London, Church House 1976) ISBN 0108153674
- ^ Who's Who 1970 p3176 ISBN 0713611405
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| Preceded by George William Clarkson |
Bishop of Pontefract 1961 – 1968 |
Succeeded by William Gordon Fallows |
| Preceded by John Alexander Ramsbotham |
Bishop of Wakefield 1968 – 1977 |
Succeeded by Colin James |
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