Arthur Perowne | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Worcester | |
| Diocese | Diocese of Worcester |
| In office | 1931–1941 |
| Predecessor | Ernest Pearce |
| Successor | William Wilson Cash |
| Other post(s) | Archdeacon of Plymouth (&c.;1918–1920) Bishop of Bradford(1920–1931) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1893 (deacon); 1894 (priest) by his father |
| Consecration | 1920 by Cosmo Gordon Lang |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Arthur William Thomson Perowne (1867-06-13)13 June 1867 |
| Died | 9 April 1948(1948-04-09) (aged 80) Gloucester, Gloucestershire,United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Parents | John Perowne and Anna Maria Raikea Woolrych |
| Spouse | 1) Helena Oldnall Russell (m. 1895-1922; her death) 2) Mabel Bailey (m. 1926) |
| Children | 3 sons, incl.Stewart |
| Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge |
Arthur William Thomson Perowne (13 June 1867 – 9 April 1948) was anAnglican bishop in Britain. He was the firstBishop of Bradford and, from 1931, was theBishop of Worcester.[1]
Perowne was born into a distinguished ecclesiastical family: he was the fourth son ofJohn Perowne, sometimeBishop of Worcester and Anna Maria Raikea Woolrych,[1] his unclesThomas andEdward wereArchdeacon of Norwich andVice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge respectively and his first-cousinThomas also Archdeacon of Norwich. He was educated atHaileybury and Imperial Service College andKing's College, Cambridge (he was admitted 4 October 1886, matriculated that Michaelmas, and gained the degrees of Bachelor of Arts {BA, 1889},Cambridge Master of Arts {MA(Cantab), 1893}, andDoctor of Divinity {DD, 1920}).[2][3][4]
Having been assistant master atMagdalen College Choir School, Oxford since 1890, Perowne was ordained a deacon onTrinity Sunday (28 May) 1893[5] and a priest on Trinity Sunday (20 May) 1894 (both times byhis father, theBishop of Worcester, inWorcester Cathedral),[6] beginning his ministry with his title post as acurate atHartlebury, Worcestershire[7] (being also a chaplain to his father, the Bishop).[1] His first incumbency was asVicar ofSt Philip & St James, Hallow, Worcestershire (1901–1904),[2] after which he became Vicar ofSt George's Edgbaston, Warwickshire from 1904,[8]Rural Dean ofEdgbaston[9] from 1905 and anhonorary canon ofBirmingham Cathedral from 1912.
In 1913, he left all three posts in Warks forDevon, where he became Vicar ofSt Andrew's, Plymouth; he became additionally Rural Dean for theThree Towns (i.e. the wider Borough of Plymouth), 1914–1918, aPrebendary ofExeter Cathedral from 1917,Archdeacon of Plymouth from 1918, and aChaplain to the King from 1918, remaining as Vicar ofPlymouth throughout, until he relinquished them all in 1920.[2]
His appointment to becomeBishop of Bradford, the firstbishop diocesan of the newDiocese of Bradford, was announced on 12 December 1919,[10] and he was ordained and consecrated a bishop byCosmo Gordon Lang,Archbishop of York, atYork Minster onCandlemas (2 February) 1910.[11] He wastranslated to becomeBishop of Worcester (in which See his father had served until 1901) in 1931[12] and retired in 1941.[2]
In 1895, he married Helena Frances Oldnall-Russell (1869–1922). They had three sons:[2] Francis Edward Perowne (1898–1988),Stewart Perowne, a diplomat, archaeologist and historian, and Leslie Arthur Perowne (1906–1997), sometime Head of Music at theBBC, who was responsible for bringingAlbert Ketèlbey out of retirement to conduct a huge BBC Ketèlbey Concert at theRoyal Albert Hall, prior toWorld War II.
A keen fisherman,[1] he lived retirement inGloucester (where he died)[13] with his second wife, Mabel (1886–1968), the second daughter of Thomas Henry Bailey of Wyldcroft inWokingham, whom he had married in 1926.[2]
| Church of England titles | ||
|---|---|---|
| New diocese | Bishop of Bradford 1920–1931 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Bishop of Worcester 1931–1941 | Succeeded by |
