Arthur Burgett

Arthur Edward Burgett[1] was a Canadian Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century.[2]

Born in 1869, he was educated at Radley and Trinity Hall, Cambridge,[3][4] and ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1898.[5]

After eight years in the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment he served a curacy in Tottenham. Moving to Canada he was a missionary within the Anglican Diocese of Quebec and Chaplain to the Bishop[6] 1914. He was Rector of St Paul's, Quebec, and then Archdeacon of Assiniboia from 1918 to 1924[7] and of Edmonton North until his elevation to the Episcopate as the second Bishop of Edmonton.

He died on 13 December 1942.

Notes

  1. ↑ NPG details
  2. ↑ Diocese of Edmonton Profile
  3. ↑ "Burgett, Arthur Edward (BRGT889AE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ↑ "Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  5. ↑ Ordinations. London The Times Tuesday, 8 Mar 1898; pg. 4; Issue 35458; col C
  6. ↑ "The Clergy List" London, Kellys,1913
  7. ↑ Rootsweb
Religious titles
Preceded by
Henry Allen Gray		 Bishop of Edmonton, Canada
1932– 1941		 Succeeded by
Walter Foster Barfoot


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