Frederick Craske Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:The Right Reverend
Frederick Craske
Elected:1954
Term:1954–1959
Predecessor:Cecil Horsley
Successor:Stanley Eley
Birth Date:11 May 1901
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Alma Mater:King's College London

Frederick William Thomas Craske[1] was Bishop of Gibraltar[2] from 1953 to 1959.

Biography

Frederick Craske was born on 11, May, 1901 and educated at King's College London before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with curacies at St Chrysostum, Victoria Park, Manchester and All Hallows Lombard Street in the City of London.[3] [4] After this he held incumbencies at St John the Evangelist Read-in-Whalley and St John the Evangelist, Blackburn. From 1939 to 1953 he was education secretary to the Missionary Council of the Church Assembly and then (before his elevation to the episcopate[5]) founded the Church of England Youth Council.[6] A Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, he died on 10 March 1971.[7]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp87155 NPG details
  2. http://www.gibconnect.com/~holytrinity/lower.php?filename=bishops.php Bishops of Gibraltar
  3. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
  4. [Who's Who (UK)|“Who was Who”]
  5. http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk:8080/Archives/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Persons&dsqSearch=Code=='DS/UK/3722'&dsqCmd=Show.tcl National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
  6. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=109-aa_1-1_1-2&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 National Archives
  7. [The Times]