Robert Bickersteth (bishop)
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The Rt Rev Robert Bickersteth FRS (24 August 1816 – 15 April 1884) was the Anglican Bishop of Ripon in the mid 19th century.The Times 16 April 1884; p.6; Issue 31109; col E Death of the Bishop of Ripon
Life
Robert Bickersteth was born into an ecclesiastical family, the son of Rev. John Bickersteth, sometime Rector of Sapcote. His brother Edward was a Dean of Lichfield. His uncle was Edward was also a priest and Edward Bickersteth, Bishop of Exeter was his cousin. Another uncle, a prominent barrister, was raised to the peerage as Baron Langdale.Frances Keyes Aglionby, The life of Edward Henry Bickersteth D.D., [http://www.dsnell.zynet.co.uk/Aglionby/Ch1.html Chapter 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121223162028/http://www.dsnell.zynet.co.uk/Aglionby/Ch1.html |date=2012-12-23 }} He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge.{{acad|id=BKRT837R|name=Bickersteth, Robert}} 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,[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp;jsessionid=31CE5DE9994FAA780029B07CAB1DAA63?text_id=948530&word=METHLEY A vision of Britain] a post he held until his death.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1858.{{cite web|title=Fellows of the Royal Society {{!}} Queens' College|url=https://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/life-at-queens/about-the-college/college-facts/fellows-of-the-royal-society|website=www.queens.cam.ac.uk|accessdate=3 February 2018}}
His son, also named Robert Bickersteth, was a Liberal MP.[http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/1500-1900/bickersteth/bickersteth.html Catalogue of the papers of the Bickersteth family, 1815-1976]
He consecrated the church of St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall on 29 July 1880.Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer West Yorkshire, England 30 Jul 1880 p5: "Consecration of Killinghall Church"
Works
- The Social Effects of the Reformation (1859)
- Romanism in its relation to the second coming of Christ (1854)
- The Gifts of the Kingdom. Being Lectures Delivered During Lent (1855)
External links
- [http://anglicanhistory.org/england/rbickersteth/ Bibliographic directory] from Project Canterbury
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