Robert Crosthwaite

For the American politician, see Robert H. Crosthwaite.

Robert Jarratt Crosthwaite (13 October 1837, Wellington, Somerset – 9 September 1925, Bolton Percy) was the inaugural Bishop of Beverley in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.^[1]

Robert Jarratt Crosthwaite, first Bishop of Beverley, 1870s

Born in Wellington, Somerset, on 13 October 1837,^[2] Robert Crosthwaite was the son of Benjamin Crosthwaite, priest and canon.^[3] He was educated at Leeds Grammar School^[4] and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[5] Ordained in 1862, he began his career with a curacy at North Cave after which he was Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of York.^[6] Following incumbencies in Brayton and St Lawrence's Church, York, he was Rector of Bolton Percy^[7] (1885–1923). Crosthwaite was appointed Archdeacon of York in 1884.

In 1889, Crosthwaite was appointed suffragan bishop within the Diocese of York and served until 1923. He was consecrated a bishop by William Thomson, Archbishop of York, at York Minster.^[8] He became a Doctor of Divinity; and died on 9 September 1925 at Bolton Percy.^[5][9]