John Wareing Bardsley (29 March 1835 – 14 March 1914) was the Bishop of Carlisle. He was the son of Canon James Bardsley, once a Bradford curate. As a boy he lived in Church Street,

Burnley Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, Lancashire, Preston, at the confluence of the River C ...

, attending

Burnley Grammar School Burnley Grammar School was latterly, a state-funded selective boys grammar School, situated in Byron Street in Burnley, England. However, during its long history, it moved between a number of sites in the town. History In 1552, on the order of ...

between 1843-48. He continued his education at

Manchester Grammar School The Manchester Grammar School (MGS) in Manchester, England, is the largest independent school (UK), independent day school for boys in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1515 as a Grammar school#free tuition, free grammar school next to Manchester C ...

and Trinity College, Dublin. He began his career as a curate at St Anne's Sale after which he held incumbencies at St John's,

Bootle Bootle (pronounced ) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, which had a population of 51,394 in 2011; the wider Parliamentary constituency had a population of 98,449. Historically part of Lancashire, Bootle's ...

and then St Saviour's,

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. From 1880 to 1886 he was

Archdeacon of Warrington The archdeacons in the Diocese of Liverpool are senior ecclesiastical officers in the Church of England in a highly irregular area surrounding the city of Liverpool. They are the archdeacons of Liverpool, of St Helens and Warrington, of Knows ...

and then

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for a year before his ordination to the

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in 1887. In 1891 he was

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to Carlisle, a post he held until his death on 14 March 1914. He was buried at Roughtonhead near Carlisle. Whilst at Bootle he had married Mary Powell with whom he had five children. Later generations of the Bardsley family included Cyril Bardsley, Bishop of Peterborough from 1924 to 1927, and Cuthbert Bardsley, suffragan

Bishop of Croydon The Bishop of Croydon is an episcopal title used by an area bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Southwark, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The Croydon Archdeaconry was transferred from Canterbury Diocese to Southwark in 1984. ...

from 1947 to 1956, and

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from 1956 to 1976.

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, ''Cuthbert Bardsley: Bishop, Evangelist, Pastor, Collins, London, 1989.

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