Reginald Crabbe

The Rt Rev Reginald Percy Crabbe ^[1] was an Anglican Bishop in the mid 20th century.^[2]

He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 15 July 1883,^[3] educated at Trent College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and ordained in 1907.^[4] After a curacy at St George’s, Newcastle-under-Lyme he was Chaplain to the Bishop of Sierra Leone. He then held Incumbencies at St Mary’s Peckham,^[5] and St Mary’s, Sheffield. From 1924 to 1936 he was Rural Dean of Greenwich then Dulwich. In 1936 he became Bishop of Mombasa. He returned to England in 1953^[6] and was an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Portsmouth until 1958. He died on 22 October 1964.^[7] He represented Great Britain at the 1906 Olympic Games in the 800m and 1500m.^[8]

Notes

1. NPG details
2. Photo of Bishop Crabbe
3. His father was the Rev. Henry Brooksby Crabbe "Who was Who" 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X.
4. ”The Clergy List” London, Kelly’s, 1913
5. Church web site
6. The Times, Friday, Feb 27, 1953; pg. 8; Issue 52557; col E Bishop Of Mombasa
7. Rt. Rev. R. P. Crabbe The Church In East Africa The Times Saturday, Oct 24, 1964; pg. 10; Issue 56151; col E
8. Sports Reference