Robert Jarratt Crosthwaite, DD (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]
Born in Wellington, Somerset on 13 October 1837,[2] Robert Crosthwaite was the son of the Rev. Canon Benjamin Crosthwaite.[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] until appointed Archdeacon of York in 1884. Five years later he became a Suffragan to assist within the Diocese of York and served to 1923. He died on 9 September 1925 at Bolton Percy.[5][7]
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