Keith Prosser

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Charles Keith Kipling Prosser^[1] 1897–1954) was the fifth Bishop of Burnley from 1950 until 1954.

Educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham he served during World War I with the Royal Garrison Artillery^[2] after which he studied at Queens' College, Cambridge before ordaination in 1923. Successively curate of Bishop Latimer’s Church, Birmingham,^[3] Rector of Alert Bay, British Columbia and Rural Dean of Leigh he was ordained to the episcopate in 1950.^[4] He died in post four years later.^[5]

Notes

Church of England titles
Preceded by Edgar Priestley Swain	Bishop of Burnley 1950 – 1954	Succeeded by George Edward Holderness

v t e Bishops of Burnley

Edwyn Hoskyns Alfred Pearson Henry Henn Edgar Priestley Swain Keith Prosser George Holderness Richard Watson Ronald Milner Martyn Jarrett John Goddard

Persondata
Name	Prosser, Charles Keith Kipling
Alternative names
Short description	British bishop
Date of birth	1897
Place of birth
Date of death	1954
Place of death

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