Edward Burroughs

Edward Arthur Burroughs^[1] (1 October 1882 – 23 August 1934) was an eminent Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century.^[2]

Born into an ecclesiastical family — his father was William Edward Burroughs (1845–1931), rector of the Mariners' Church, Dún Laoghaire^[3] and later prebendary of Exeter Cathedral^[4] — and educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1908.^[5] He was Fellow, Lecturer and Tutor at Hertford College, Oxford and an Honorary Chaplain to the King before being appointed Dean of Bristol in 1922. Four year later he was ordained to the episcopate as Bishop of Ripon.^[6] An eminent author,^[7] he died on 23 August 1934.

References

↑ NPG details
↑ Open Library
↑ "Burroughs, Edward Arthur". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/101338. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
↑ Burroughs, Edward Arthur. Who Was Who. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
↑ ”The Clergy List”: London, Kelly’s, 1913
↑ National Archives
↑ Amongst others he wrote “The Eternal Goal, 1915”; “The Way of Peace”, 1920; “The Christian Church and War”, 1931; “Christianity and the Crisis”, 1933 > British Library web-site accessed Saturday 9 May 2009 11:04 GMT

Church of England titles
Preceded by Wynne Willson	Dean of Bristol 1922–1926	Succeeded by Henry de Candole
Preceded by Thomas Strong	Bishop of Ripon 1926–1934	Succeeded by Geoffrey Lunt

Deans of Bristol

Early modern	William Snow John Whiteheare/Whythere George Carew Henry Joliffe John Sprint Anthony Watson Simon Robson Edward Chetwynd Matthew Nicholas Henry Glemham Richard Towgood Samuel Crossman Richard Thompson William Levett George Royse The Hon Robert Booth Samuel Creswick Thomas Chamberlayne William Warburton Samuel Squire Francis Ayscough Cutts Barton John Hallam

Late modern	Charles Layard Bowyer Sparke John Parsons Henry Beeke Thomas Musgrave John Lamb Gilbert Elliot Francis Pigou Wynne Willson Edward Burroughs Henry de Candole Harry Blackburne Evered Lunt Douglas Harrison Horace Dammers Wesley Carr Robert Grimley David Hoyle

Bishops of Ripon (modern diocese)

Charles Longley Robert Bickersteth William Boyd Carpenter Thomas Drury Thomas Strong Edward Burroughs Geoffrey Lunt George Chase John Moorman Hetley Price David Young John Packer, Bishop of Ripon and Leeds James Bell, Acting Bishop of Ripon and Leeds diocese dissolved; Bell became area Bishop of Ripon

for the area bishops in Leeds diocese, see Bishop of Ripon

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