{{short description|British Anglican bishop (1867–1950)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}} {{Use British English|date=January 2018}} thumb|Bilbrough in 1936 {{Portal|Christianity}}
'''Harold Ernest Bilbrough<ref>[http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp89229 NPG details]</ref> ''' (1867 – 15 November 1950) was the fourth Anglican Bishop of Dover in the modern era.<ref>”Who was Who 1897-1990” London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}}</ref>
==Life and career== Bilbrough was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, he began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Mary’s, South Shields<ref>"Clergy List" London, John Phillips, 1900</ref> and was successively Vicar of St John’s, Darlington,<ref>The Times, Thursday, 25 Mar 1897; pg. 8; Issue 35160; col B Ecclesiastical Intelligence</ref> Rural Dean of Jarrow and then Sub-Dean of Liverpool Cathedral before his elevation to the episcopate as Bishop of Dover in 1916.<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=427| year=1920 | isbn=}}</ref> He was nominated Bishop of Newcastle on 14 September and installed on 5 October 1927; he retired on 1 October 1941.
==References== <references /> {{Bishops of Dover}} {{Bishops of Newcastle}}
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