Robert Bickersteth (bishop)

The Right Reverend Robert Bickersteth FRS
Bishop of Ripon
Installed	1857
Term ended	1884
Predecessor	Charles Thomas Longley
Successor	William Boyd Carpenter
Orders
Ordination	1845
Personal details
Born	24 August 1816 London, England
Died	15 April 1884 (aged 67)
Buried	Ripon Cathedral
Denomination	Anglican
Spouse	Elizabeth Garde (m.1846)
Children	Robert
Alma mater	Queens' College, Cambridge

The Rt Rev Robert Bickersteth FRS (24 August 1816 - 15 April 1884) was the Anglican Bishop of Ripon in the mid 19th century.^[1]

Life

Robert Bickersteth was born into an ecclesiastical family^[2] and 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]

External links

• Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury

Notes

1. The Times 16 April 1884; p.6; Issue 31109; col E Death of the Bishop of Ripon
2. His father was the Rev John Bickersteth sometime Rector of Sapcote and his brother a future Dean of Lichfield Times Obituary (Ibid)
3. "Bickersteth, Robert (BKRT837R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
4. A vision of Britain
5. "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
6. Catalogue of the papers of the Bickersteth family, 1815-1976