Harold Bilbrough
Bishop of Newcastle; Bishop of Dover
Harold Ernest Bilbrough[1] (1867 – 15 November 1950) was the fourth Anglican Bishop of Dover in the modern era.[2]
Life and career
Bilbrough was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, he began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Mary’s, South Shields[3] and was successively Vicar of St John’s, Darlington,[4] Rural Dean of Jarrow and then Sub-Dean of Liverpool Cathedral before his elevation to the episcopate as Bishop of Dover in 1916.[5] He was nominated Bishop of Newcastle on 14 September and installed on 5 October 1927; he retired on 1 October 1941.
References
- ^ NPG details
- ^ ”Who was Who 1897-1990” London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ^ "Clergy List" London, John Phillips, 1900
- ^ The Times, Thursday, 25 Mar 1897; pg. 8; Issue 35160; col B Ecclesiastical Intelligence
- ^ Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 427.
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Bishops of Dover
- Richard Yngworth
- Richard Thornden
- Richard Rogers
- Edward Parry
- Rodney Eden
- William Walsh
- Harold Bilbrough
- John Macmillan
- Alfred Rose
- Lewis Meredith
- Tony Tremlett
- Richard Third
- Richard Llewellin
- Stephen Venner
- Trevor Willmott
- Rose Hudson-Wilkin