Cyril Bardsley

Cyril Charles Bowman Bardsley (13 February 1870 – 20 December 1940) was an Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century.^[1][2]

Baedsley was educated at Marlborough and New College, Oxford^[3] and ordained in 1895.^[4] His first post was as a curate at Huddersfield Parish Church.^[5] He then held incumbencies at Nottingham and St Helen's, Merseyside.^[6] He then became the secretary of the Church Missionary Society^[7] until his ordination to the episcopate^[8] as the Bishop of Peterborough in 1924.^[9] 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”,^[10] he died shortly after resigning his see.

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Preceded by Frank Woods	Bishop of Peterborough 1924–1927	Succeeded by Claude Blagden
Preceded by Lewis Clayton as Suffragan Bishop of Leicester	Bishop of Leicester 1927–1940	Succeeded by Guy Smith

v t e Bishops of Peterborough Early modern John Chambers David Pole Edmund Scambler Richard Howland Thomas Dove William Piers Augustine Lindsell Francis Dee John Towers Benjamin Lany Joseph Henshaw William Lloyd Thomas White Richard Cumberland White Kennett Robert Clavering John Thomas Richard Terrick Robert Lamb John Hinchliffe Late modern Spencer Madan John Parsons Herbert Marsh George Davys Francis Jeune William Magee Mandell Creighton Edward Glyn Frank Woods Cyril Bardsley Claude Blagden Spencer Leeson Robert Stopford Cyril Easthaugh Douglas Feaver Bill Westwood Ian Cundy Donald Allister

v t e Bishops of Leicester Medieval diocesans Cuthwine Wilfrid Headda Aldwine Torhthelm Eadbeorht Unwona Wernbeorht Hræthhun Ealdred Ceobred see removed to Dorchester Modern suffragans Francis Thicknesse Lewis Clayton Norman Lang diocese created Modern diocesans Cyril Bardsley Guy Smith Ronald Williams Richard Rutt Tom Butler Tim Stevens

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Name	Bardsley, Cyril Charles Bowman
Alternative names
Short description	British bishop
Date of birth	13 February 1870
Place of birth
Date of death	20 December 1940
Place of death