Richard Brook (bishop)


Richard Brook was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.
He was born in 1880 and educated at Bradford Grammar School and Lincoln College, Oxford and ordained in 1905. He was a Fellow and Tutor at Merton College from 1906 to 1919 then Headmaster of Liverpool College until 1928. After this he was Vicar of Doncaster then Archdeacon of Coventry. In 1940 he was elevated to the Episcopate as Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, a post he held until 1953. An Honorary Chaplain to the King, he died on 31 January 1969.