Richard Brook (bishop)

Richard Brook was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.^[1]

He was born in 1880 and educated at Bradford Grammar School and Lincoln College, Oxford^[2] and ordained in 1905.^[3] He was a Fellow and Tutor at Merton College from 1906 to 1919 then Headmaster of Liverpool College until 1928. After this he was Vicar of Doncaster then Archdeacon of Coventry. In 1940 he was elevated to the Episcopate as Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich,^[4] a post he held until 1953.^[5] An Honorary Chaplain to the King,^[6] he died on 31 January 1969.^[7]

Notes

↑ "Handbook of British Chronology" Fryde,E.B;Greenway D.E;Porter,S;Roy,I Cambridge, CUP,1996 ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5
↑ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
↑ ”The Clergy List” London, Kelly’s, 1913
↑ Ecclesiastical News New Bishop Of St. Edmundsbury The Times Monday, Aug 19, 1940; pg. 7; Issue 48698; col D
↑ Bishop Of St. Edmundsbury And Ipswich To Resign The Times Saturday, Apr 04, 1953; pg. 6; Issue 52587; col C
↑ The Times, Monday, Jul 22, 1935; pg. 15; Issue 47122; col B Court Circular
↑ The Times, Monday, Feb 03, 1969; pg. 10; Issue 57475; col D Obituary Rt. Rev. R. Brook

Church of England titles
Preceded by Walter Godfrey Whittingham	Bishop of Saint Edmundsbury and Ipswich 1940 – 1953	Succeeded by Arthur Harold Morris

Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich

St Edmundsbury Cathedral The Bishop's House, Ipswich St Nicholas Centre, Ipswich

Office holders	Martin Seeley, Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Mike Harrison, Bishop of Dunwich AEO: Norman Banks, Bishop suffragan of Richborough Frances Ward, Dean of St Edmundsbury David Jenkins, Archdeacon of Sudbury Ian Morgan, Archdeacon of Suffolk Archdeacon of Ipswich (vacant; not to be filled)

Historic offices	Provosts of St Edmundsbury (1929–2000; see Dean of St Edmundsbury)

Bishops of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich

Henry Hodgson Albert David Walter Whittingham Richard Brook Arthur Morris Leslie Brown John Waine John Dennis Richard Lewis Nigel Stock David Thomson (Acting) Martin Seeley

Archdeacons of Coventry

High Medieval	Richard Peche Edmund Nicholas Richard Brito (I) Richard de Leghes Robert de Bosco Richard of Gloucester Alexander of Hales Adam de Hoo Lawrence of St Martin William of Kilkenny John Kirkby Richard Brito (II) Robert Stafford Peter de Insula

Late Medieval	Gregory Giudice de Alatri Richard Riccardi de Urbe John Cardinal Gaetani de Urbe Humphrey de Hastanges Hugh de Marisco William de Sallowe William Cross Richard Boule William de Driffield John de Pipe Richard de Birmingham William Lombe Robert de Stretton Robert de Oxton John Heyworth Robert Esple Roger Wall Thomas Mills

Early modern	George Strangeways Ralph Colyngwood John Blythe Henry Comberford Thomas Lever William James William Hinton Samuel Brooke Ralph Brownrigg Francis Walsall John Riland George Downing Lancelot Addison Richard Davies William Wilson Thomas Smallbrook Norman Fotheringham

Late modern	William Vyse Charles Buckeridge William Spooner John Sandford Charles Holbech George Arbuthnot Claude Blagden Joseph Hunkin Richard Brook Richard Howard Leonard Stanford Eric Buchan Peter Bridges Alan Morgan Ian Russell Mark Bryant Ian Watson John Green (Acting; became Archdeacon Pastor)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 24209963

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