Robert Crosthwaite

Robert Jarratt Crosthwaite (13 October 1837, Wellington, Somerset – 9 September 1925, Bolton Percy) was the inaugural Bishop of Beverley in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

[3] He was educated at Leeds Grammar School[4] and Trinity College, Cambridge.

[5] Ordained in 1862, he began his career with a curacy at North Cave after which he was Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of York.

[6] Following incumbencies in Brayton and St Lawrence's Church, York, he was Rector of Bolton Percy[7] (1885–1923).

In 1889, Crosthwaite was appointed suffragan bishop within the Diocese of York and served until 1923.