John Wareing Bardsley (29 March 1835 – 14 March 1914) was the

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. He was the son of Canon James Bardsley, once a Bradford curate. As a boy he lived in Church Street, Burnley, attending

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between 1843-48. He continued his education at Manchester Grammar School and

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

. He began his career as a

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at St Anne's Sale after which he held incumbencies at St John's, Bootle and then St Saviour's, Liverpool. From 1880 to 1886 he was

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and then Archdeacon of Liverpool for a year before his ordination to the episcopate as Bishop of Sodor and Man in 1887. In 1891 he was

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, 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 Cyril Charles Bowman Bardsley (13 February 1870 – 20 December 1940) was an Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century. Bardsley was educated at Marlborough and New College, Oxford and ordained in 1895. His first post was as a cu ...

, Bishop of Peterborough from 1924 to 1927, and

Cuthbert Bardsley Cuthbert Killick Norman Bardsley (28 March 1907 – 9 January 1991) was an Anglican bishop and evangelist who served as Bishop of Croydon from 1947 to 1956 and Bishop of Coventry from 1956 to 1976. It was during his tenure at Coventry that th ...

, suffragan Bishop of Croydon from 1947 to 1956, and Bishop of Coventry from 1956 to 1976. Donald Coggan, ''Cuthbert Bardsley: Bishop, Evangelist, Pastor, Collins, London, 1989.

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