Edward Arthur BurroughsNPG details (1 October 1882 – 23 August 1934) was an English writer and Anglican bishop.Open Library
He was born into an ecclesiastical family - his father was William Edward Burroughs (1845–1931), rector of the Mariners' Church, Dún Laoghaire and later prebendary of Exeter Cathedral. He was educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford, and was ordained in 1908.”The Clergy List”: London, Kelly’s, 1913
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 years later he was ordained to the episcopate as Bishop of Ripon.National Archives At the opening ceremony of the Hostel of the Resurrection in Leeds in 1928 Burroughs caused controversy when he described modern universities such as Leeds as "counterfeit presentations" when compared to the "real thing(s)" of Oxford and Cambridge. His comments were denounced by others at the ceremony, and Burroughs was forced to withdraw his words in a statement to the press the following week.
He died on 23 August 1934.
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