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Robert Bickersteth (bishop)

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Robert Bickersteth

Bishop of Ripon
Installed1857
Term ended1884
PredecessorCharles Thomas Longley
SuccessorWilliam Boyd Carpenter
Orders
Ordination1845
Personal details
Born(1816-08-24)24 August 1816
Died15 April 1884(1884-04-15) (aged 67)
BuriedRipon Cathedral
DenominationAnglican
SpouseElizabeth Garde (m.1846)
ChildrenRobert
Alma materQueens' 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

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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.[2] He was 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]

Works

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  • 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)
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Notes

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  1. ^ The Times 16 April 1884; p.6; Issue 31109; col E Death of the Bishop of Ripon
  2. ^ Frances Keyes Aglionby, The life of Edward Henry Bickersteth D.D., Chapter 1 Archived 2012-12-23 at archive.today
  3. ^ "Bickersteth, Robert (BKRT837R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ^ A vision of Britain
  5. ^ "Fellows of the Royal Society | Queens' College". www.queens.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  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 Bishop of Ripon
1857 – 1884
Succeeded by