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Name: CRABBE, Reginald Percy MA (Rt. Rev.)
Birth Date: 22 July 1883 Barton Regis
Death Date: 22 Oct 1964 Bexhill-on-Sea
First Date: 1937
Last Date: 1953
Profession: Bishop
Area: Mombasa
Married: In Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire 1912 Margaret Forbes Wilson b. 10 June 1884 Ecclesall Bierlow, d. 21 July 1975 Exeter
Children: John; Margaret Mary Irene (12 Mar 1919-9 Nov 2017 Plymouth); Betty
Book Reference: Foster, Wikipedia
School: Trent College, Derbyshire, Corpus Christi College Cambridge, Ridley Hall Cambridge
General Information:
Foster - arrived Mombasa Apr 1937, ordained 1906-7, Consecrated Bishop 1936. Domestic Chaplain to Bp. of Sierra Leone 1911-14, 3rd Bishop of Mombasa, died 1964, retired from Mombasa 1953. His son was John Crabbe, who was at Marlborough College, was on the staff of Makerere College, Uganda in November 1943 and was resident Tutor to the Kabaka of Uganda.
Web - Deacon 1906; Curate St George's Newcastle under Lyme between 1906-11. Ordained in 1907. Domestic Chaplain to Bishop of Sierra Leone between 1911 and 1914. Vicar of St Mary's Peckham 1915-20; Vicar St Mary's Sheffield 1920-24; Vicar St Peter's Brockley 1924-30; Rural Dean of Greenwich 1926-30; Chaplain of Alleyn's College of God's Gift 1930-36; Rural Dean of Dulwich 1935-36; Bishop of Mombasa 1936-53; Vicar of Ventnor, Isle of Wight 1953-58; Hon. Canon Portsmouth Cathedral 1954-58