Edmund Bishop (17 May 1846 in Totnes – 17 February 1917 in Barnstaple) was an English Roman Catholic historian of Christian liturgy.
After reviewing Bishop's first attempt at rendering his own script, Carlyle cast an eye over both the copy and copyist, and then made the observation that the handwriting was out of the ordinary, and so, he was inclined to think, was the writer.
The easy office hours, after he had risen rapidly to a high place in his department, together with his vacations, left sufficient leisure for study, and he used this time fruitfully.
It was during this period that he transcribed, analysed and annotated his monumental Collectio Britannica, containing copies of 300 papal letters dating from the 5th to the 11th centuries.
[1] In 1893 Bishop took lodgings together with Dom Francis Aidan Gasquet, OSB, a monk of Downside Abbey, whom he had come to know during his time there as a candidate.