Frederick Ridgeway

[2] Frederick Edward Ridgeway was educated at Tonbridge School and Clare College, Cambridge; he was younger brother of Charles, sometime Bishop of Chichester.

[6] He was consecrated a bishop on 17 February 1901, at St Margaret's, Westminster, by Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury.

[7] Though initially the care of the West End remained with Alfred Barry,[8] when he retired in February 1903, the Bishop of Kensington was given those responsibilities.

[3] He took legal possession of the See by the confirmation of his election on 17 October 1911 at St Mary-le-Bow by Alfred Cripps, Vicar-General of the Province of Canterbury.

[13] Ridgeway encouraged clergy to volunteer as army and navy chaplains, to provide support for the tens of thousands of soldiers in camps on Salisbury Plain and to work in Sherborne Castle, Lytchett Manor and other great houses which had been transformed ‘into the most perfect and luxurious hospitals’.