Edward Bickersteth (priest), Edward Bickersteth
Edward Bickersteth is the name of four members of an English ecclesiastical family: *Edward Bickersteth (priest) (1786–1850), English evangelical priest * Edward Bickersteth (Dean of Lichfield) (1814–1892), English Anglican priest, nephew of the evangelical priest *Edward Bickersteth (bishop of Exeter) (1825–1906), English Anglican bishop, son of the evangelical priest *Edward Bickersteth (bishop of South Tokyo) Edward Bickersteth (26 June 1850 – 5 August 1897) was an ordained Anglican missionary, Bishop of South Tokyo, and a leading figure in both the establishment of the Cambridge Mission to Delhi and in the early years of the Anglican Church ...

Edward Bickersteth (priest)
Rev. Edward Bickersteth (19 March 1786 – 28 February 1850) was an English evangelical clergyman from the prominent Bickersteth family. Life He was born at Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland, the fourth son of Henry Bickersteth, a surgeon. Bickersteth attended Kirby Longsdale Grammar School and practised as a solicitor at Norwich from 1812 to 1815. Within space of only 11 days in December 1815 he was ordained both as a deacon and priest. In January 1816 travelled to Africa to inspect and report on the work of the Church Missionary Society (CMS). He continued to travel overseas in connection with the work of the CMS throughout his life. He was the secretary of the CMS from 1824 to 1831. On receiving the living of Watton, Hertfordshire, in 1830, he resigned his secretaryship, but continued to lecture and preach, both for the ''Church Missionary Society'' and the ''Society for the Conversion of the Jews''. He was instrumental in the merger of the Anglican Central Committee and the ...
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Edward Bickersteth (Dean Of Lichfield)
Edward Bickersteth (23 October 1814 – 7 October 1892) was an Anglican priest in the 19th century. Life Edward Bickersteth was born in Acton into a remarkable ecclesiastical family, the second son of John Bickersteth, sometime Rector of Sapcote. His brother Robert was Bishop of Ripon. His uncle was Edward Bickersteth and Edward Henry Bickersteth, Bishop of Exeter, was his cousin. Another uncle, a prominent barrister, was raised to the peerage as Baron Langdale, while his nephew Robert Bickersteth was a Liberal MP. He was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1831, and migrated to Sidney Sussex College two years later, graduating B.A. in 1836. He also studied at Durham University in 1837. Made deacon in 1837''Crockford's Clerical Directory'', 1860 (p. 48) and ordained priest in 1839, he began his career with curacies at Chetton and Shrewsbury Abbey. He was incumbent of Penn before being appointed Archdeacon of Buckingham and Vicar of Aylesbury in 1853. In 1875, he was ...
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Edward Bickersteth (bishop Of Exeter)
Edward Henry Bickersteth (25 January 1825 – 16 May 1906) was a bishop in the Church of England and he held the office of Bishop of Exeter between 1885 and 1900. Life Edward Henry Bickersteth was born in Islington, the son of Edward Bickersteth, Rector of Watton, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in Classics 1847, and proceeded M.A. in 1850. and was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal for poetry in 1844, 1845 and 1846. On taking Holy Orders (deacon, 1848, priest 1849),'' Crockford's Clerical Directory'', 1860 (p. 49) he became curate of Banningham, Norfolk, and then of Christ Church, Tunbridge Wells. He was called to the Rectory of Hinton Martell in 1852 and to the Vicarage of Christ Church, Hampstead in 1855, a position in which he remained for 30 years. In 1885 he became Dean of Gloucester and in the same year was appointed Bishop of Exeter. Bickersteth was awarded an honorary D.D. by Cambridge University in 1885. ...
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