Robert Bickersteth (bishop)

The Right Reverend
Robert Bickersteth
FRS
Bishop of Ripon
Installed 1857
Term ended 1884
Predecessor Charles Thomas Longley
Successor William Boyd Carpenter
Orders
Ordination 1845
Personal details
Born (1816-08-24)24 August 1816
London, England
Died 15 April 1884(1884-04-15) (aged 67)
Buried Ripon Cathedral
Denomination Anglican
Spouse Elizabeth Garde (m.1846)
Children Robert
Alma mater Queens' College, Cambridge

The Rt Rev Robert Bickersteth FRS (24 August 1816 - 15 April 1884) was the Anglican Bishop of Ripon in the mid 19th century.[1]

Life

Robert Bickersteth was born into an ecclesiastical family[2] and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge.[3] Ordained in 1845, his first post was as a Curate to his father. After a further curacy in Reading he became Rector of St John’s, Clapham and then of St Giles in the Fields. Between 1854 and 1857 he was a Canon at Salisbury Cathedral when he was elevated to the Episcopate as the Bishop of Ripon,[4] a post he held until his death.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1858.[5]

His son, also named Robert Bickersteth, was a Liberal MP.[6]

He consecrated the church of St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall on 29 July 1880.[7]

Notes

  1. ↑ The Times 16 April 1884; p.6; Issue 31109; col E Death of the Bishop of Ripon
  2. ↑ His father was the Rev John Bickersteth sometime Rector of Sapcote and his brother a future Dean of Lichfield Times Obituary (Ibid)
  3. ↑ "Bickersteth, Robert (BKRT837R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ↑ A vision of Britain
  5. ↑ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  6. ↑ Catalogue of the papers of the Bickersteth family, 1815-1976
  7. ↑ Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer West Yorkshire, England 30 Jul 1880 p5: "Consecration of Killinghall Church"
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Charles Thomas Longley		 Bishop of Ripon
1857 – 1884 		Succeeded by
William Boyd Carpenter


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