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 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.

A thoughtful cleric,^[6] devout patriot^[7] and historian,^[8] he died on 31 December 1934.

References

1. His father was the Reverend Frederick Smith, Vicar of Shelf, West Yorkshire
2. “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
3. Undergraduate at Balliol
4. During which time he married Lucy Bottomley
5. The Times, Thursday, 22 November 1905; p. 14; Issue 38184; col A Ecclesiastical Intelligence
6. ”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
7. "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
8. ”The Story of Ripon Minster” Smith, L.F.M.B: Leeds, Richard Richardson,1924