John Wareing Bardsley (29 March 1835 – 14 March 1914) was the

Bishop of Carlisle The Bishop of Carlisle is the Ordinary (officer), Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Carlisle in the Province of York. The diocese covers the county of Cumbria except for Alston Moor and the former Sedbergh Rural District. The Episcop ...

. He was the son of Canon James Bardsley, once a Bradford curate. As a boy he lived in Church Street,

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, attending Burnley Grammar School between 1843 and 1848. He continued his education at

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and

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. He began his career as a

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at St Anne's Sale after which he held incumbencies at St John's,

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and then St Saviour's,

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. From 1880 to 1886 he was Archdeacon of Warrington and then Archdeacon of Liverpool for a year before his ordination to the

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in 1887. In 1891 he was translated to

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, a post he held until his death on 14 March 1914. He was buried at Roughtonhead near Carlisle. Whilst at Bootle he had married Mary Powell with whom he had five children. Later generations of the Bardsley family included Cyril Bardsley, Bishop of Peterborough from 1924 to 1927, and Cuthbert Bardsley, suffragan Bishop of Croydon from 1947 to 1956, and

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from 1956 to 1976.

Donald Coggan Frederick Donald Coggan, Baron Coggan, (9 October 1909 – 17 May 2000) was the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury from 1974 to 1980.

, ''Cuthbert Bardsley: Bishop, Evangelist, Pastor'', Collins, London, 1989.

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