Robert 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]

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 York he was Rector of Bolton Percy[7] (1885–1923) and appointed Archdeacon of York in 1884. Five years later he became a suffragan bishop to assist within the Diocese of York and served to 1923. He was consecrated a bishop on 11 June 1889, 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]