Arthur William Thomson Perowne (13 June 18679 April 1948) was an
Anglican bishop in Britain. He was the first
Bishop of Bradford
The Bishop of Bradford is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Leeds, in the Province of York, England. The title takes its name after Bradford, a city in West Yorkshire.
Upon the creation of the ...
and, from 1931, was the
Bishop of Worcester.
Birth family and education
Perowne was born into a distinguished ecclesiastical family: he was the fourth son of
John Perowne
John James Stewart Perowne (3 March 1823 – 6 November 1904) was an English Anglican bishop. Born in Burdwan, Bengal, Perowne was a member of a notable clerical family, whose origins were Huguenot.
Life
He was educated at Norwich School, ...
, sometime
Bishop of Worcester and Anna Woolrych,
his uncles
Thomas
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and
Edward were
Archdeacon of Norwich
The Archdeacon of Norwich is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Norwich, who exercises supervision of clergy and responsibility for church buildings within the geographical area of her or his archdeaconry.
History
...
and
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge respectively and his first-cousin
Thomas
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also Archdeacon of Norwich. He was educated at
Haileybury and Imperial Service College
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and
King's College, Cambridge
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(he was admitted 4 October 1886, matriculated that Michaelmas, and gained the degrees of Bachelor of Arts ,
Cambridge Master of Arts
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, and
Doctor of Divinity ).
Priest
Having been assistant master at
Magdalen College Choir School, Oxford since 1890, Perowne was ordained a deacon on
Trinity Sunday
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(28 May) 1893 and a priest on Trinity Sunday (20 May) 1894 (both times by
his father, the
Bishop of Worcester, in
Worcester Cathedral
Worcester Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Worcester, in Worcestershire, England, situated on a bank overlooking the River Severn. It is the seat of the Bishop of Worcester. Its official name is the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Bles ...
), beginning his ministry with his title post as a
curate at
Hartlebury
Hartlebury is a village and civil parish in Worcestershire, England which is in Wychavon district centred south of Kidderminster. The civil parish registered a population of 2,549 in the 2001 Census.
The railway station is centred 800 metr ...
, Worcestershire (being also a chaplain to his father, the Bishop).
His first incumbency was as
Vicar
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of
St Philip & St James, Hallow, Worcestershire (1901–1904),
after which he became Vicar of
St George's Edgbaston, Warwickshire from 1904,
Rural Dean
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of
Edgbaston
Edgbaston () is an affluent suburban area of central Birmingham, England, historically in Warwickshire, and curved around the southwest of the city centre.
In the 19th century, the area was under the control of the Gough-Calthorpe family a ...
from 1905 and an
honorary canon
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Originally, a canon was a cleric living with others in a clergy house or, later, i ...
of
Birmingham Cathedral from 1912.
In 1913, he left all three posts in Warks for
Devon
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, where he became Vicar of
St Andrew's, Plymouth; he became additionally Rural Dean for the
Three Towns
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United Kingdom
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(i.e. the wider Borough of Plymouth), 1914–1918, a
Prebendary
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of
Exeter Cathedral from 1917,
Archdeacon of Plymouth
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from 1918, and a
Chaplain to the King
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from 1918, remaining as Vicar of
Plymouth throughout, until he relinquished them all in 1920.
Bishop
His appointment to become
Bishop of Bradford
The Bishop of Bradford is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Leeds, in the Province of York, England. The title takes its name after Bradford, a city in West Yorkshire.
Upon the creation of the ...
, the first
bishop diocesan of the new
Diocese of Bradford
The Diocese of Bradford is a former Church of England diocese within the Province of York. The diocese covered the area of the City of Bradford, Craven district and the former Sedbergh Rural District now in Cumbria. The seat of the episcopal ...
, was announced on 12 December 1919, and he was ordained and consecrated a bishop by
Cosmo Gordon Lang,
Archbishop of York
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, at
York Minster
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on
Candlemas (2 February) 1910. He was
translated
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to become
Bishop of Worcester (in which See his father had served until 1901) in 1931
["New Bishop of Worcester", '']The Times
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'', 9 February 1931, p. 12 and retired in 1941.
Marriages, family and death
In 1895, he married Helena Frances Oldnall-Russell (1869–1922). They had three sons:
Francis Edward Perowne (1898–1988),
Stewart Perowne
Stewart Henry Perowne OBE, KStJ, FSA, FRSA (17 June 1901 – 10 May 1989) was a British diplomat, archaeologist, explorer and historian who wrote books on the history and antiquities of the Mediterranean. Despite his homosexuality, in 1947 he ...
, a diplomat, archaeologist and historian, and Leslie Arthur Perowne (1906–1997), sometime Head of Music at the
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with his second wife, Mabel (1886–1968), the second daughter of Thomas Henry Bailey of Wyldcroft in
, whom he had married in 1926.