James Lumsden Barkway (9 July 187812 December 1968) was a

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in the 20th century.

Biography

He was born on 9 July 1878 and educated at Liverpool University and Westminster College, Cambridge. After ten years as a

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minister his first

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ministry position was as a minor canon at

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from where he moved to be

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of Christ Church,

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. He was made deacon on Trinity Sunday 1916 (18 June) and ordained priest the following Trinity Sunday (3 June 1917) — both times by

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, Bishop of St Albans, at the cathedral. Following time as Rector of Little Gaddesden, he was appointed the

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in 1935. He was consecrated a bishop by Cosmo Lang,

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, at

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on Whit Tuesday 1935 (11 June). Barkway wrote a popular apologetic presentation of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, ''The Creed and its Credentials''. Three years later he was

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to be the

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where he stayed for eleven years. He resigned his See in May 1949. He retired to Kingscote, Gloucestershire, where he undertook some bishop's duties; he died at home in Coulsdon,

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, on 12 December 1968, aged 90.

References

1878 births 1968 deaths Alumni of the University of Liverpool Archdeacons of St Albans Bishops of Bedford Bishops of Saint Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane 20th-century Scottish Episcopalian bishops {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub 19th-century Anglican theologians 20th-century Anglican theologians