Lucius Smith

Lucius (Frederick Moses Bottomley) Smith was the inaugural Bishop of Knaresborough from 1905 to 1934.

He was born on 6 January 1860 into a clerical family[1] and educated at Harrow[2] and Balliol College, Oxford.[3]

In 1882 he studied for ordination at Leeds Clergy School before a curacy in Toxteth.[4] He was successively Vicar of Ilkley, Richmond, Easby, Calverley and Macclesfield before a 29-year stint as Suffragan Bishop of Knaresborough.[5] He was also Archdeacon of Ripon during the same period.

A thoughtful cleric,[6] devout patriot[7] and historian,[8] he died on 31 December 1934.

References

  1. ↑ His father was the Reverend Frederick Smith, Vicar of Shelf, West Yorkshire
  2. ↑ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  3. ↑ Undergraduate at Balliol
  4. ↑ During which time he married Lucy Bottomley
  5. ↑ The Times, Thursday, 22 November 1905; p. 14; Issue 38184; col A Ecclesiastical Intelligence
  6. ↑ ”Religious education and the education bill: 1906 ... a charge delivered at the archidiaconal visitation, May 8th and 10th, 1906.”Smith, L.F.M.B: Leeds, Richard Richardson,1906
  7. ↑ "Prayers in time of war" The Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop Boyd Carpenter, the Bishop of Worcester, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Bishop of Knaresborough, the Bishop of Birmingham, Canon Newbolt & others: London, Jarrold, 1914
  8. ↑ ”The Story of Ripon Minster” Smith, L.F.M.B: Leeds, Richard Richardson,1924
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Inaugural appointment
Bishop of Knaresborough
1905 – 1934
Succeeded by
Paul Fulcrand Delacour de Labilliere


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