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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.[1]
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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.[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]
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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)
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