Claudius Crigan

Anglican bishop of Sodor and Man 1784 to 1813

Claudius Crigan

Bishop of Sodor and Man
Installed| 1784
Term ended| 1813 (death)
Predecessor| George Mason
Successor| George Murray
Personal details
Born|

Claudius Crigan

c. 1743 (1743)

Omagh, Tyrone

Died| 1813(1813-00-00) (aged 69–70)
Denomination| Church of England
Spouse| Mary Crump (Harman)[1]
Mary Crigan née Smelt
Alma mater| St Mary Hall, Oxford

Claudius Crigan (c. 1743 – 5 April 1813)[2] was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Church of England as the Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1784 to 1813.[3]

A native of Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[4] He became the chaplain to an infantry regiment stationed in the West Indies, and whilst there, he married Mary, widow of John Harmon of Antigua.[2] After retiring from the army, he became the Rector (or Chaplain) of St Anne's Church in Liverpool.[2]

He was nominated Bishop of Sodor and Man by Charlotte Murray, Duchess of Atholl on 1 March 1784 and received royal assent on 27 March 1784.[3][5] He was consecrated on 4 April 1784 and enthroned on 5 May 1784.[3][5]

He died in office on 5 April 1813, aged 74. He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).[citation needed][when?]

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## References

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1. ^ "Family tree of Mary Crump". Geneanet. Geneanet. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
2. ^ a b c "Claudius Crigan — Bishop 1784-1813". A Manx Note Book: People. Isle of Man.com. Retrieved 6 June 2012.
3. ^ a b c Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 274\. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
4. ^ "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p191: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
5. ^ a b Horn, J. M.; Smith, D. M.; Mussett, P. (2004). "Bishops of Sodor and Man". Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: Volume 11: Carlisle, Chester, Durham, Manchester, Ripon, and Sodor and Man Dioceses. British History Online. pp. 141–146.

Church of England titles

Preceded by

George Mason

|  Bishop of Sodor and Man
1784–1813  | Succeeded by

George Murray

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* Germanus
* Conindrius
* Romulus
* Machutus
* Conanus
* Contentus
* Baldus
* Malchus
* Torkinus
* Brendanus
* Roolwer
* William
* Hamond

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* Wimund
* Nicholas
* John (I)
* Gamaliel
* Reginald (I)
* Christian
* Michael
* Nicholas
* Reginald (II)
* Nicholas de Meaux
* John (II)
* Simon
* Laurence
* Richard
* Gilbert
* Mark
* Alan
* Gilbert Maclelan
* Bernard of Kilwinning
* Cormac Cormacii
* Thomas de Rossy
* William Russell

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| Pre-Reformation|

* John Dongan
* John Sproten
* Conrad
* Theodore Bloc
* Richard Payl
* John Burgherlin
* John Seyre
* Thomas Burton
* Thomas Kirkham
* Richard Oldham
* Huan Blackleach
* Huan Hesketh
* John Howden

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* Thomas Stanley
* Henry Man
* Thomas Stanley
* John Salisbury
* John Meyrick
* George Lloyd
* John Phillips
* William Forster
* Richard Parr
* Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth)
* Samuel Rutter
* Isaac Barrow
* Henry Bridgeman
* John Lake
* Baptist Levinz
* Thomas Wilson
* Mark Hiddesley
* Richard Richmond
* George Mason
* Claudius Crigan
* George Murray
* William Ward
* James Bowstead
* Henry Pepys
* Thomas Vowler Short
* Walter Shirley
* Robert Eden
* Horatio Powys
* Rowley Hill
* John Bardsley
* Norman Straton
* Thomas Drury
* Denton Thompson
* Charles Thornton-Duesbury
* William Stanton Jones
* John Taylor
* Benjamin Pollard
* Eric Gordon
* Vernon Nicholls
* Arthur Attwell
* Noël Jones
* Graeme Knowles
* Robert Paterson
* Richard Blackburn (acting)
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