The Rt Rev Robert Bickersteth FRS (24 August 1816 – 15 April 1884) was the Anglican Bishop of Ripon in the mid 19th century.

[1] Robert Bickersteth was born into an ecclesiastical family, the son of Rev.

Another uncle, a prominent barrister, was raised to the peerage as Baron Langdale.

Between 1854 and 1857 he was a canon at Salisbury Cathedral when he was elevated to the episcopate as the Bishop of Ripon,[4] a post he held until his death.

[6] He consecrated the church of St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall on 29 July 1880.