Frederick Hugh Wright Crabb (24 April 1915 - 24 February 2007) was an

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and

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in the 20th century. He was born in

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on 24 April 1915, as the third of six children in a farming family. Church Times website, ‘’ The Most Revd Frederick H. W. Crabb’’, article by The Very Revd Fabian Hugh, dated March 28, 2007
/ref> He studied Theology at the

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and was

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in 1939. His first posts were curacies in

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and

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. In 1942, the

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send him to

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as a missionary until 1951. He worked with the Dinka people, and in Yei and Mundri, where he founded the Bishop Gwynne Theological College. He married Margery Coombs in 1946 and they had three children, John, Alison and Elizabeth. The family returned to England in 1951 for health reasons. He was

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of the London College of Divinity from 1951 until 1957 and then

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of the College of Emmanuel and St Chad, Saskatoon for a further 10 years. He then held two incumbencies in

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before being appointed Bishop of Athabasca in 1975. He was also

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from 1977 and retired in 1983. Crabb died on 24 February 2007.Anglican Journal
May 1, 2007. Retrieved December 21, 2010.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Crabb, Frederick Hugh Wright 1915 births People from East Devon District Alumni of the University of London Anglican bishops of Athabasca 20th-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops Metropolitans of Rupert's Land 20th-century Anglican archbishops 2007 deaths English Anglican missionaries Anglican missionaries in Sudan Clergy from Devon