Lucius Smith
Lucius (Frederick Moses Bottomley) Smith was the inaugural Bishop of Knaresborough from 1905 to 1934.
He was born on 6 January 1860 into a clerical family[1] and educated at Harrow[2] and Balliol College, Oxford.[3]
In the paternal line his grandfather was Joseph Smith (1792-1841) Alderman and Burgess of Doncaster and his great grandfather William Smith (1767-1829) merchant and property owner in Rotherham and Whitehouse near Greasborough. His Uncle Arthur Joseph Smith (1825-1891) was three times Lord Mayor of Doncaster, another uncle William Edwood Smith was twice Lord Mayor of Doncaster and Town Clerk. His cousin Walter Shirley Shirely QC MP (1851-1888) was elected the first Member of Parliament for the Doncaster Division in 1885 - he too also attended Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford.
In 1882 he studied for ordination at Leeds Clergy School before a curacy in Toxteth.[4] He was successively Vicar of Ilkley, Richmond, Easby, Calverley and Macclesfield before a 29-year stint as Suffragan Bishop of Knaresborough.[5] He was also Archdeacon of Ripon during the same period. He was also Archdeacon of Leeds (1921-1934) during which time he also president of the Antiquarian Thoresby Society.
A thoughtful cleric,[6] devout patriot[7] and historian,[8] he died on 31 December 1934.
References
- ^ His father was the Reverend Frederick Smith (1823-1874), Vicar of Shelf, West Yorkshire and his mother Lucy Catherine Bottomley (1823-1860)daughter of Moses Bottomley of Woodleigh Hall, Rawdon
- ^ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ^ Undergraduate at Balliol Archived 2006-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ During which time he married Lucy Bottomley
- ^ The Times, Thursday, 22 November 1905; p. 14; Issue 38184; col A Ecclesiastical Intelligence
- ^ ”Religious education and the education bill: 1906 ... a charge delivered at the archidiaconal visitation, May 8th and 10th, 1906.”Smith, L.F.M.B: Leeds, Richard Richardson,1906
- ^ "Prayers in time of war" The Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop Boyd Carpenter, the Bishop of Worcester, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Bishop of Knaresborough, the Bishop of Birmingham, Canon Newbolt & others: London, Jarrold, 1914
- ^ ”The Story of Ripon Minster” Smith, L.F.M.B: Leeds, Richard Richardson,1924
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