Arthur William Thomson Perowne (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Right Reverend Arthur William Thomson Perowne (13 June 1867 - 9 April 1948) was an eminent Anglican Bishop in the first half of the 20th century. Arthur Perowne was born into a distinguished ecclesiastical family: his father was John James Stewart Perowne sometime Bishop of Worcester. He was educated at Haileybury and King's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1894 he began his ministry as a curate at Hartlebury after which he was Vicar of St Philip and St James Hallow, Rural Dean of Edgbaston, Prebendary of Exeter and finally (before his elevation to the Episcopate) Archdeacon of Plymouth. Initially the first Bishop of Bradford, he was translated to Worcester in 1931. A keen fisherman, in retirement he lived at Gloucester and died on 9 April 1948.