# Frederick Crabb

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'''Frederick Hugh Wright Crabb''' (24 April 1915 - 24 February 2007) was an [Anglican](/source/Anglican) [bishop](/source/bishop) and [missionary](/source/missionary) in the 20th century.<ref>[http://province-ontario.anglican.ca/?page_id=3 Province of Ontario] Retrieved December 21, 2010.</ref>

He was born in [Luppitt](/source/Luppitt), [Devon](/source/Devon) on 24 April 1915, as the third of six children in a farming family.<ref name=CT>[https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2007/30-march/news/uk/the-most-revd-frederick-h-w-crabb  Church Times website, ‘’ The Most Revd Frederick H. W. Crabb’’, article by The Very Revd Fabian Hugh, dated March 28, 2007]</ref>  He studied Theology at the [University of London](/source/University_of_London) and was [ordained](/source/ordained) in 1939.<ref>[Crockford's 1940 – 41](/source/Crockford's_Clerical_Directory) Oxford, [OUP](/source/OUP), 1947</ref> His first posts were [curacies](/source/Curate) in [Teignmouth](/source/Teignmouth) and [Plymouth](/source/Plymouth).

In 1942, the [Church Missionary Society](/source/Church_Missionary_Society) send him to [Sudan](/source/Sudan) as a missionary<ref name=CT /> until 1951. He worked with the Dinka people, and in Yei and Mundri, where he founded the Bishop Gwynne Theological College. He married Margery Coombs in 1946 and they had three children, John, Alison and Elizabeth.  The family returned to England in 1951 for health reasons.<ref name=CT />

He was [Vice Principal](/source/Principal_(academia)) of the  London College of Divinity from 1951 until 1957 and then [Principal](/source/Principal_(academia)) of the [College of Emmanuel and St Chad, Saskatoon](/source/Saskatoon_Theological_Union) for a further 10 years.<ref>["Who was Who" 1897-2007](/source/Who's_Who) London, [A & C Black](/source/A_%26_C_Black), 2007  {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}</ref> He then held two [incumbencies](/source/Vicar) in [Calgary](/source/Calgary) before being appointed [Bishop of Athabasca](/source/Anglican_Diocese_of_Athabasca) in 1975. He was also [Metropolitan](/source/Metropolitan_(religion))  of [Rupert's Land](/source/Ecclesiastical_Province_of_the_Northern_Lights) from 1977 and retired in 1983.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rlo9DgAAQBAJ&dq=Frederick+Hugh+Wright+Crabb+anglican+bishop&pg=PR9  Google Books website, ''Rupert’s Land: A Cultural Tapestry'', edited by Richard C. Davis]</ref>

Crabb died on 24 February 2007.<ref>[http://www.anglicanjournal.com/nc/news-update-items/other-news-items/article/frederick-hugh-wright-crabb-7293.html Anglican Journal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615003234/http://www.anglicanjournal.com/nc/news-update-items/other-news-items/article/frederick-hugh-wright-crabb-7293.html |date=2011-06-15 }} May 1, 2007. Retrieved December 21, 2010.</ref>

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