Owen Thomas Lloyd Crossley (30 April 1860 – 3 March 1926) was the fourth Anglican Bishop of Auckland for a short period during the second decade of the 20th century.[1] Educated at the Belfast Academy and Trinity College, Dublin[2] he was made deacon 8 June 1884 and ordained priest 31 May 1885, both times at Down;[3] and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Seapatrick, County Down.[4] Incumbencies at St John's Church, Egremont[5] and Almondbury[6] were followed by a period living in Australia, including six years (18 September 1905 – 1911)[3] as Vicar of All Saints, St Kilda, and Archdeacon of Geelong.[7] He was also Archbishop's Chaplain, a lecturer at St John's Theological College, Melbourne (1907-1911),[8] and Chairman of Governors of Geelong Grammar School.[9] Not long after his appointment in 1905, he was elected to a vacancy on the Council of Trinity College (University of Melbourne).[10] On 25 March 1911,[3] he was appointed to the episcopate as Bishop of Auckland.
Lloyd Crossley | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Auckland | |
| Diocese | Auckland |
| Predecessor | Moore Neligan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Owen Thomas Lloyd Crossley 30 April 1860 |
| Died | 3 March 1926 (aged 65) London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Anglicanism |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
He was consecrated bishop on 25 April 1911 at St Mary's Cathedral, Auckland, by Churchill Julius, Bishop of Christchurch. Ill health prompted his return from New Zealand two years later[11] — he resigned his See effective 30 September 1913[3] — and he served the remainder of his career as Rector of St Andrew's Major near Cardiff (1914–1917) and Assistant Bishop of Llandaff (2 June 1917 – 30 April 1921),[3] retiring to Bramshott, Hampshire.[12] He died after being hit by a motor-van, soon after alighting from a bus in London.[13]
References
edit- ^ The Times, Thursday, 4 Mar 1926; p. 9; Issue 44211; col B Bishop Crossley. Obituary
- ^ "Who was Who" 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ^ a b c d e Blain, Michael. Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific – ordained before 1932 (2019) pp. 362–4. (Accessed at Project Canterbury, 26 June 2019)
- ^ Seapatrick details
- ^ The Times, Friday, 24 Jun 1892; p. 9; Issue 33673; col E Ecclesiastical Intelligence New appointments
- ^ Vicar of Almondbury
- ^ Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 347.
- ^ "Project Canterbury: Cable Clerical Index". Retrieved 25 April 2022.
- ^ “Bishop Crossley—Death in London Hospital—Knocked Down by Motor-van”, The Argus, 5 Mar. 1926, p. 11
- ^ Minutes, Trinity College Council, 2 Dec. 1905, vol. 4, p. 381. See also James Grant, Episcopally Led and Synodically Governed (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Press, 2010), p. 393.
- ^ "Resigns due to ill health". Archived from the original on 30 October 2007. Retrieved 29 March 2008.
- ^ Parish details
- ^ The Times, Thursday, 4 March 1926; p. 16; Issue 44211; col C Road Accidents. Bishop Crossley Killed
