Atherton Gwillym Rawstorne (9 July 18555 May 1936) was the

Bishop of Whalley The Bishop of Whalley was an Episcopal polity, episcopal title used by a Church of England suffragan bishop; the See was created by Order in Council on 28 June 1909 (under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888) and took its name after the large villa ...

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in the Diocese of Manchester until 1927, in the Diocese of Blackburn from 1927) from 1909 to 1936; and

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from 1922 to 1936. Rawstorne was born the eldest son of Robert Rawstorne, sometime Archdeacon of Blackburn, and was educated at

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and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Ordained in 1879, he was appointed

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of All Saints',

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, West Riding of Yorkshire (1879–1882), where the vicar was

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; then when Kennion emigrated to become Bishop of Adelaide, in South Australia, Rawstorne went with him as his

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(1882–1886). He then served as Commissary to the Bishop of Adelaide (Kennion until 1894, then John Harmer) alongside his other appointments (1887–1904): he became Curate of Scarborough in the

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(1887–1888) and perpetual curate of

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in the West Riding (1889–1994). In 1888, he married Anne (only daughter of G. W. Horton, a vicar); they had three sons and three daughters. Rawstorne then served Croston, Lancashire as

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(1894–1932), during which time he was also Rural Dean of Leyland from 1908 until 1922. He was first appointed to the episcopate in 1909, becoming

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to the Bishop of Manchester ( Edmund Knox until 1921; William Temple thereafter). He became

(1922–1935) and, when the Diocese of Blackburn was erected from the Diocese of Manchester, he kept his See (Whalley) and became suffragan to Percy Herbert, Bishop of Blackburn in 1927. When he died at Croston in 1936, he was still Bishop of Whalley.

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Lancashire Image Archive: Consecration of Preston Cemetery extension
including Atherton Gwillym Rawstorne, Bishop of Whalley. {{DEFAULTSORT:Rawstone, Atherton Gwillym 1855 births People educated at Eton College Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Bishops of Whalley Archdeacons of Blackburn 20th-century Church of England bishops 1936 deaths