Lucius Smith
Lucius (Frederick Moses Bottomley) Smith was the inaugural Bishop of Knaresborough from 1905 to 1934.
He was born on 6 January 1860 into a clerical family[1] and educated at Harrow[2] and Balliol College, Oxford.[3]
In 1882 he studied for ordination at Leeds Clergy School before a curacy in Toxteth.[4] He was successively Vicar of Ilkley, Richmond, Easby, Calverley and Macclesfield before a 29 year stint as Suffragan Bishop of Knaresborough.[5] He was also Archdeacon of Ripon.
A thoughtful cleric,[6] devout patriot[7] and historian,[8] he died on 31 December 1934.
References
- ↑ His father was the Reverend Frederick Smith, Vicar of Shelf, West Yorkshire
- ↑ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ↑ Undergraduate at Balliol
- ↑ During which time he married Lucy Bottomley
- ↑ The Times, Thursday, 22 November 1905; p. 14; Issue 38184; col A Ecclesiastical Intelligence
- ↑ ”Religious education and the education bill: 1906 ... a charge delivered at the archidiaconal visitation, May 8th and 10th, 1906.”Smith, L.F.M.B: Leeds, Richard Richardson,1906
- ↑ "Prayers in time of war" The Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop Boyd Carpenter, the Bishop of Worcester, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Bishop of Knaresborough, the Bishop of Birmingham, Canon Newbolt & others: London, Jarrold, 1914
- ↑ ”The Story of Ripon Minster” Smith, L.F.M.B: Leeds, Richard Richardson,1924
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| Preceded by Inaugural appointment |
Bishop of Knaresborough 1905 – 1934 |
Succeeded by Paul Fulcrand Delacour de Labilliere |
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