{{Short description|Australian bishop}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}} {{Other uses}} {{Infobox Christian leader | honorific-prefix = The Most Reverend | name = Charles Riley | honorific-suffix = | title = Bishop and Archbishop of Perth | image = Archbishop Riley.jpg | image_size = | alt = Charles O L Riley, Chaplain General of the Australian Military Forces (1914–1918) | caption = Charles O L Riley<br>Chaplain General of the Australian Military Forces (1914–1918) | church = Church of England | province = Western Australia | diocese = Perth | term = {{ubl|1894–1914 (as Bishop)|1914–1929 (as Archbishop)}} | predecessor = Henry Parry | successor = Henry Le Fanu | other_post = Metropolitan of Western Australia (''ex officio'') <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = 1878 (as deacon)<br>1879 (as priest) | ordained_by = | consecration = 18 October 1894 | consecrated_by = <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = Charles Owen Leaver Riley | birth_date = {{Birth date|1854|5|26|df=y}} | birth_place = Birmingham, Warwickshire, England<!--as was--> | death_date = {{Death date and age|1929|6|23|1854|5|26|df=y}} | death_place = Perth, Western Australia<!--as was--> | buried = | nationality = | religion = Anglican | residence = | parents = {{ubl|Lawrence William Riley|Emma, {{née|Shaw}}}} | spouse = {{marriage|Elizabeth Merriman|7 January 1886}} | children = {{ubl|6, including|Charles Lawrence Riley|Basil Riley}} | profession = | previous_post = {{ubl|Vicar of St Paul's Church, Preston, Lancashire|(1885–1894)}} | education = {{ubl|Heversham Grammar School|Owen's College, Manchester}} | alma_mater = Caius College, Cambridge | motto = | signature = | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms = | coat_of_arms_alt = <!---------- Other ----------> | module = {{Infobox military person |embed = yes |allegiance = {{ubl|Western Australia|Australia}} |branch = {{ubl|Western Australian Defence Force|Commonwealth Military Forces|Australian Military Forces}} |service_years = 1895–1918 |rank = {{ubl|Senior chaplain to the Western Australian Defence Force|(from 1901 part of the {{nowrap|Commonwealth Military Forces)}}|(1895–1914)|Chaplain General of the Australian Military Forces|(1914–1918)}} }} }}
'''Charles Owen Leaver Riley''' (26 May 1854 – 23 June 1929) was the first Anglican Archbishop of Perth, Western Australia.
==Early years== Riley was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, the eldest child of the Reverend Lawrence William Riley, the vicar of St Cross, Knutsford, England, and his wife Emma, née Shaw.<ref name=ADB/> Riley was educated at Heversham Grammar School and Owen's College, Manchester, and Caius College, Cambridge. He obtained his B.A. in 1878, his M.A. in 1881, and received an honorary D.D. in 1894.<ref>{{acad|id=RLY874CO|name=Riley, Charles Owen Leaver}}</ref> In 1878 he was ordained as a deacon in 1878, and in 1879 he was ordained as a priest. He was curate at East Bierley, Yorkshire from 1878 to 1880, Bradford from 1880 to 1882, and Lancaster from 1882 to 1885.<ref>{{cite book | last=Malden Richard (ed) | author-link= | title= Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn) | location= London | publisher= The Field Press| pages=1176| year=1920 | isbn=}}</ref> He became vicar of St Paul's, Preston, in 1885, a position he held for nine years.<ref name = "daub">{{Dictionary of Australian Biography|First=Charles|Last=Riley|shortlink=0-dict-biogR.html}}</ref>
==Archbishop of Perth== In 1894 Riley was appointed Bishop of Perth.<ref name = "daub"/>
thumb|left|Archbishop Riley addressing a crowd as 'Chaplain-General to the AIF' Riley arrived in Western Australia on 3 February 1895.<ref name=ADB/> He led the church's efforts to take over Guildford Grammar School, but frequently came into conflict with Percy Henn, the school's headmaster.<ref name="ADB" /> He was also noted for his close association with Sir John Winthrop Hackett in working for the establishment of the University of Western Australia.<ref name="ADB" /> He became senior chaplain of the Australian Military Forces in Western Australia and chaplain-general in 1913. Riley toured the UK, France & Egypt for 3½ months in late 1916 early 1917 enquiring into the administration of each theatre's Chaplain's Dept, returning to Australia in February 1917.<ref>AWM B2455, C.O.L Riley's Service Record, Canberra</ref>
==Personal life== Riley married Elizabeth Merriman on 7 January 1886; subsequently they had three daughters and three sons.<ref name=ADB/> One of his sons, Charles Lawrence Riley (born 1888) became the Bishop of Bendigo in Victoria.<ref name = "daub"/>
Riley was active in freemasonry, in both English and Australian jurisdictions. In 1897 in the United Grand Lodge of England he was granted the honorific rank of Past Grand Chaplain in recognition of his services to English Freemasonry, as part of a series of similar honorary promotions intended to mark the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria.<ref name=QC19>{{cite book |title=Ars Quatuor Coronatorum |first= JW|last= Horsley (The Rev'd Canon)|chapter= Notes on the Grand Chaplains of England |volume= 19|location= London|publisher= Quatuor Coronati Correspondence Circle Ltd|publication-date= 1906|page= 195}}</ref> In Australian Freemasonry he is particularly notable as the longest serving Grand Master of the Western Australian Grand Lodge. He held this position from 1904 until his death, with the exception of a three-year term (1917–1920) by Sir William Ellison-Macartney.<ref name=ADB>{{cite web|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/riley-charles-owen-leaver-8213|title=Riley, Charles Owen Leaver (1854–1929)|last=Boyce|first=Peter|year=2006|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition|publisher= Australian National University|access-date=2009-11-09}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{Alexander-Four Bishops}} * Battye, J. S. ''The Cyclopedia of Western Australia'' * {{Kimberly 1897}} * {{Dictionary of Australian Biography|First=Charles|Last=Riley|shortlink=0-dict-biogR.html}} * Wilson, J. G. ''Western Australia's Centenary''; Crockford, 1929. * ''The Westralian'', 24 and 25 June 1929; {{refend}}
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