{{Short description|Scottish Anglican bishop (1863–1944)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Archbishop | honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend | name = Walter Robberds | honorific_suffix = | title = Bishop of Brechin<br />Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church | image = Walter John Forbes Robberds (cropped).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Robberds {{circa}} 1900s | native_name = | native_name_lang = | church = Scottish Episcopal Church | archdiocese = | province = | metropolis = | diocese = Brechin | see = | elected = | term = 1904–1934 | quashed = <!-- or | retired = --> | predecessor = Hugh Jermyn | successor = Kenneth Mackenzie | opposed = | other_post = Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church (1908–1934) <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = 1888 | ordained_by = Charles Ellicott | consecration = 6 January 1904 | consecrated_by = James Kelly <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1863|09|06|df=y}} | birth_place = Baharampur, India | death_date = {{Death date and age|1944|08|16|1863|09|06|df=y}} | death_place = Royal Tunbridge Wells, England | buried = <!-- or | tomb = --> | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | religion = Anglican | residence = | parents = {{hlist | Frederick Walter Robberds | Caroline Ann Forbes}} | spouse = {{marriage|May Ethel Fox James|1896}} | children = 4 | occupation = | previous_post = | alma_mater = | motto = | signature = | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms = | coat_of_arms_alt = <!---------- Other ----------> | module = | other = }}
'''Walter John Forbes Robberds<ref>[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?LinkID=mp81382&rNo=0&role=sit NPG details]</ref>''' (1863–1944) was a Scottish Anglican bishop.<ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=182-hussey&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 National Archives]</ref>
==Life and ministry== He was born on 6 September 1863 in Baharampur. He was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond, and Keble College, Oxford.<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=172| year=1920 | isbn=}}</ref> He was ordained deacon after studying at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1887 in Gloucester and priest in 1888 in Bristol.<ref>”The Clergy List” London, Kelly’s, 1913</ref> His career began as a curate at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol after which he was Chaplain of his old theological college.<ref>The Times, Thursday, Dec 31, 1891; pg. 10; Issue 33522; col B ''Ecclesiastical Intelligence New appointments''</ref> He then held incumbencies at St German's, Blackheath<ref>[http://www.southwark.anglican.org/downloads/lostchurches/BLA02.pdf Diocese of Southwark]</ref> St Mary's, Arbroath<ref>”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark {{ISBN|0-567-08746-8}}</ref> and St Mary Redcliffe where additionally he was also Rural Dean of Bedminster. In 1904 he was ordained to the episcopate as the Bishop of Brechin<ref>.[http://new.thedioceseofbrechin.org/index.php?page=history Diocese of Brechin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720181026/http://new.thedioceseofbrechin.org/index.php?page=history |date=20 July 2011 }}</ref> Four years later he became Primus of Scotland,<ref>“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}</ref> a post he held until his retirement in 1934. He died on 16 August 1944.
==References== {{Reflist}} {{S-start}} {{S-rel|ac}} {{S-bef|before=Hugh Jermyn}} {{S-ttl|title=Bishop of Brechin|years=1904–1934}} {{s-aft|after= Kenneth Mackenzie}} {{S-bef|before=George Wilkinson}} {{S-ttl|title=Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church|years=1908–1934}} {{s-aft|after=Arthur Maclean}} {{End}}
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