Notes for: Reginald FOSKETT
Very Rev Reginald Foskett, Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. Bishop of Penrith.
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Tuesday, Feb 16, 1937
The Rev R Foskett and Miss D Kirk
The marriage of the Rev R Foskett, MA of Church House, Mansfield and Daphne, daughter of Lieut-Col and Mrs J W C Kirk of Gedling House, Gedling, Notts will take place on April 7th.
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Monday March 19th 1962
KIRK - On 17th March 1962 in his 85th year, Lt Col William Carnegie Kirk DSO (retd) late DCLI of 8 Lansdowne Crescent, Edinburgh, beloved father of Daphne Foskett and grandfather of Helen and Patricia Middleton. Funeral Service on Wed Mar 21st at St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh 11.15am. Memorial Service and interment of ashes at Godling Parish Church, Nottinghamshire on Monday 26th March at 11am.
Obituary on March 21st: Leaves one daughter, Daphne Foskett, wife of the Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.
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Wednesday, May 31, 1967
New Bishop of Penrith
The Very Reverend Reginald Foskett, Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, is to be Bishop Suffragan of Penrith, Cumberland. He succeeds the Right Rev S C Bulley who has become Bishop of Carlisle.
Dr Foskett, who was born in 1909, has been Provost of Edinburgh since 1957
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Thursday, Jul 06, 1967;
Church News
Canon P C Rodger, vice-provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, has been appointed provost in succession to the Very Rev R Foskett who is to become Bishop of Penrith,
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Monday, Jul 27, 1970
Church News
Bishop of Penrith to Resign
The Bishop of Penrith, the Right Rev Dr Reginald Foskett, will resign is see from September 20 on medical advice. Dr Foskett, who bevame Bishop in 1967, has been off duty through illness from early in the year, and although he is making a slow recovery his doctor has advised him that he should not return to full-time work.
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Friday, Nov 16, 1973;
RT REV DR R FOSKETT
Dr Reginald Foskett, assistant Bishop of Carlisle since 1971, died on Tuesday. He was Bishop Suffragan of Penrith from 1967 to 1970.
Born in 1909, Foskett was the son of A E Foskett of Retford, Nottinghamshire. He was educated at Derby School, Keble College Oxford and Cuddesdon College Oxford; he took his Nottingham PhD in 1957. He was ordained in 1932.
He was a lecturer at Nottinghamshire County Training College for Teachers 1946-1950; Vicar of Ilkeston, Derbyshire 1948-1957, and Rural Dean 1950-1957; and Provost os St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh 1967-1967.
In 1962 he published “Some Scottish Links with the American Episcopal Church 1685-1785”; and he edited “The Zambezi Journal and Letters of Dr John Kirk” and “Zambezi Doctors”, correspondence between Kirk and Dr David Livingstone (1964-1965)
Foskett married in 1937, Daphne the daughter of Lieutenant- Col J W C Kirk and they had two daughters.