Reginald Crabbe

The Rt Rev Reginald Percy Crabbe [1] was an Anglican Bishop in the mid 20th century.[2]

He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 15 July 1883,[3] educated at Trent College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and ordained in 1907.[4] After a curacy at St George's, Newcastle-under-Lyme he was Chaplain to the Bishop of Sierra Leone. He then held Incumbencies at St Mary's Peckham,[5] and St Mary's, Sheffield. From 1924 to 1936 he was Rural Dean of Greenwich then Dulwich. In 1936 he became Bishop of Mombasa. He returned to England in 1953[6] and was an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Portsmouth until 1958. He died on 22 October 1964.[7] He represented Great Britain at the 1906 Olympic Games in the 800m and 1500m.[8]

Notes
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  2. Photo of Bishop Crabbe
  3. His father was the Rev. Henry Brooksby Crabbe "Who was Who" 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X.
  4. "The Clergy List London, Kelly’s, 1913
  5. Church web site
  6. The Times, Friday, Feb 27, 1953; pg. 8; Issue 52557; col E Bishop Of Mombasa
  7. Rt. Rev. R. P. Crabbe The Church In East Africa The Times Saturday, Oct 24, 1964; pg. 10; Issue 56151; col E
  8. Sports Reference
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
Richard Stanley Heywood		 Bishop of Mombasa
1936–1953		 Succeeded by
Leonard James Beecher


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