Owen Thomas Lloyd Crossley (30 April 18603 March 1926) was the fourth Anglican Bishop of Auckland for a short period during the second decade of the 20th century.The Times, Thursday, 4 Mar 1926; p. 9; Issue 44211; col B Bishop Crossley. Obituary Educated at the Belfast Academy and Trinity College, Dublin"Who was Who" 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 he was made deacon 8 June 1884 and ordained priest 31 May 1885, both times at Down;Blain, Michael. Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific – ordained before 1932 (2019) pp. 362–4. (Accessed at Project Canterbury, 26 June 2019) and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Seapatrick, County Down.Seapatrick details Incumbencies at St John's Church, EgremontThe Times, Friday, 24 Jun 1892; p. 9; Issue 33673; col E Ecclesiastical Intelligence New appointments and AlmondburyVicar of Almondbury were followed by a period living in Australia, including six years (18 September 19051911) as Vicar of All Saints, St Kilda, and Archdeacon of Geelong. He was also Archbishop's Chaplain, a lecturer at St John's Theological College, Melbourne (1907-1911), and Chairman of Governors of Geelong Grammar School.“Bishop Crossley—Death in London Hospital—Knocked Down by Motor-van”, The Argus, 5 Mar. 1926, p. 11 Not long after his appointment in 1905, he was elected to a vacancy on the Council of Trinity College (University of Melbourne).Minutes, Trinity College Council, 2 Dec. 1905, vol. 4, p. 381. See also James Grant, Episcopally Led and Synodically Governed (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Press, 2010), p. 393. On 25 March 1911, he was appointed to the episcopate as Bishop of Auckland.
He was consecrated bishop on 25 April 1911 at St Mary's Cathedral, Auckland, by Churchill Julius, Bishop of Christchurch. Ill health prompted his return from New Zealand two years later — he resigned his See effective 30 September 1913 — and he served the remainder of his career as Rector of St Andrew's Major near Cardiff (1914–1917) and Assistant Bishop of Llandaff (2 June 191730 April 1921), retiring to Bramshott, Hampshire.Parish details He died after being hit by a motor-van, soon after alighting from a bus in London.The Times, Thursday, 4 March 1926; p. 16; Issue 44211; col C Road Accidents. Bishop Crossley Killed
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