Robert Billing

 Robert Claudius Billing was an Anglican  Suffragan Bishop ^[1] from 1888 to 1898.^[2] Born into a clerical family,^[3] he was educated at Worcester College, Oxford and ordained in 1857 and began his career with a curacy at St Peter’s, Colchester followed by a period as Secretary of the  Church Missionary Society. In 1863 he became Vicar of Louth.^[4] After this he was Rural Dean of Spitalfields and then Suffragan Bishop.  He died (technically) in post on 21 February 1898,^[5] having ceased active work in 1895.^[6] A memorial to him can be seen at St Paul’s Cathedral.^[7]

Notes

^ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
^ ”Church History in Queen Victoria's Reign” Fowler,M: Whitefish Kessinger Publishing, 2005 ISBN 1417973560
^ His father was the Rev R. Billing, sometime Vicar of Wye, Kent > “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 9780199540877
^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
^ Death Of The Bishop Of Bedford. The Times Tuesday, Feb 22, 1898; pg. 4; Issue 35446; col F
^ His duties being taken on by the Bishop of Stepney > Fowler (ibid)
^ "Memorials of St. Paul's Cathedral" Sinclair,W.M: London, Chapman and Hall,1909

Church of England titles
Preceded by William Walsham How	Bishop of Bedford 1888 – 1898	Vacant Title next held by James Lumsden Barkway

Bishops of Bedford

John Hodgkins • William How • Robert Billing • Lumsden Barkway • Alymer Skelton • Thomas Wood • Campbell MacInnes • Basil Guy • John Trillo • John Hare • Andrew Graham • David Farmbrough • John Richardson • Richard Inwood

Office holders in the Diocese of St Albans

The Bishop of St Albans • The Bishop of Bedford • The Bishop of Hertford • The Dean of St Albans • The Archdeacon of St Albans Cathedral The Archdeacon of Bedford The Archdeacon of Hertford

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Name	Billing, Robert Claudius
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Date of birth	1834
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Date of death	1898
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