Philip Crick

Philip Charles Thurlow Crick was the Anglican Bishop of Rockhampton[1] in Australia from 1921 until 1927[2] and the Bishop of Ballarat until 1935.

Crick's grave at Funtington

Crick was born into a clerical family[3] on 18 November 1882 and educated at Winchester and Pembroke College, Cambridge. At 6 feet 3 inches,he was a good footballer and tennis player.[4] His first ministry position was as a curate at St Mary's Barnsley after which he was appointed Fellow[5] and then Dean of Clare College, Cambridge. He became a Chaplain with the Territorial Force in 1913, was in France from 1915 to 1919 and ended the Great War as Deputy Assistant Chaplain-General to VI Corps.[6]From 1917, he had special responsibility for the Tank chaplains.[7] He was one of the earliest 1WW chaplains to be appointed to a bishopric. While in England in 1935, senior staff in Ballarat wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury requesting Crick’s removal from his post. Archbishop Lang sympathised with Crick but, for practical reasons, they decided that Crick should resign and Lang arranged for Crick’s appointment as Assistant Bishop of Derby[8]However, Crick died suddenly in 1937, and is buried at St Mary’s, Funtington, West Sussex.[9]