Arthur Edward Burgett[1] (186913 December 1942) was an Anglican bishop serving Alberta, Canada, in the first half of the 20th century.[2]
Burgett was born in Calcutta and educated at Radley and Trinity Hall, Cambridge,[3] and ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1898.[4]
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[5] 1914. He was Rector of St Paul's, Quebec, and then Archdeacon of Assiniboia from 1918 to 1924[6] and of Edmonton North until his appointment to the episcopate as the second Bishop of Edmonton.
Burgett was made a deacon in 1897 and ordained a priest in Lent 1898 – both times by Mandell Creighton, Bishop of London, at St Paul's Cathedral; He was consecrated a bishop on 13 January 1932 by Isaac Stringer, Archbishop of Rupert's Land, at All Saints' Pro-Cathedral, Edmonton, and installed there at the same service.