Claudius Crigan

{{Short description|Anglican bishop of Sodor and Man 1784 to 1813}}

{{Infobox Christian leader

| type = Bishop

| name = Claudius Crigan

| alma_mater = St Mary Hall, Oxford

| title = Bishop of Sodor and Man

| birth_date = {{circa|{{birth year|1743}}}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1813|1743}}

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| buried =

| birth_place = Omagh, Tyrone

| enthroned = 1784

| ended = 1813 (death)

| religion = Church of England

| successor = George Murray

| predecessor = George Mason

| birth_name = Claudius Crigan

| spouse = Mary Crump (Harman){{cite web |title=Family tree of Mary Crump |url=https://gw.geneanet.org/bmuckleston?lang=en&pz=natalie+joan&nz=walls&p=mary&n=crump |website=Geneanet |publisher=Geneanet |access-date=4 August 2021 |language=en}}{{br}}Mary Crigan née Smelt

}}{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}

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Claudius Crigan ({{circa|1743}}{{snd}}5 April 1813) was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Church of England as the Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1784 to 1813.{{cite book |editor1-last=Fryde |editor1-first=E. B. |editor2-last=Greenway |editor2-first=D. E. |editor3-last=Porter |editor3-first=S. |editor4-last=Roy |editor4-first=I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology |edition=3rd, reprinted 2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1986 |page=274 |isbn=0-521-56350-X}}

A native of Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin."Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p191: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 He became the chaplain to an infantry regiment stationed in the West Indies, and whilst there, he married Mary, widow of John Harmon of Antigua.{{cite web |url=http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/people/bishops/crigan.htm |title=Claudius Crigan — Bishop 1784-1813 |work=A Manx Note Book: People |publisher=Isle of Man.com |access-date=6 June 2012}} After retiring from the army, he became the Rector (or Chaplain) of St Anne's Church in Liverpool.

He was nominated Bishop of Sodor and Man by Charlotte Murray, Duchess of Atholl on 1 March 1784 and received royal assent on 27 March 1784.{{Cite book |last1=Horn |first1=J. M. |last2=Smith |first2=D. M. |last3=Mussett |first3=P. |year=2004 |chapter-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35885 |chapter=Bishops of Sodor and Man |title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: Volume 11: Carlisle, Chester, Durham, Manchester, Ripon, and Sodor and Man Dioceses |publisher=British History Online |pages=141–146}} He was consecrated on 4 April 1784 and enthroned on 5 May 1784.

He died in office on 5 April 1813, aged 74. He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).{{fact|date=September 2020}}{{when?|date=September 2020}}

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