Arthur Burgett

Arthur Edward Burgett^[1] (1869 – 13 December 1942) was an Anglican bishop serving Alberta, Canada, in the first half of the 20th century.^[2]

Burgett was born in Calcutta^[3] and educated at Radley and Trinity Hall, Cambridge,^[4]^[5] and ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1898.^[6]

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^[7] 1914. He was Rector of St Paul's, Quebec, and then Archdeacon of Assiniboia from 1918 to 1924^[8] and of Edmonton North until his appointment to the episcopate as the second Bishop of Edmonton.

Burgett was made a deacon in 1897^[3] and ordained a priest in Lent 1898 – both times by Mandell Creighton, Bishop of London, at St Paul's Cathedral;^[9] 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.^[3]

References[edit]

^ NPG details
^ "Diocese of Edmonton Profile" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Enthronement of the Bishop of Edmonton". Church Times. No. 3602. 5 February 1932. p. 157. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 18 May 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
^ "Burgett, Arthur Edward (BRGT889AE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ "Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
^ Ordinations. London The Times Tuesday, 8 March 1898; p. 4; Issue 35458; col C
^ "The Clergy List" London, Kellys,1913
^ Rootsweb
^ "The Lent Ordinations". Church Times. No. 1833. 11 March 1898. p. 263. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 18 May 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.

Religious titles
Preceded by Henry Gray	Bishop of Edmonton (Alberta) 1932–1941	Succeeded by Walter Barfoot

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