Reginald Crabbe

Who was Reginald Crabbe?

The Rt Rev Reginald Percy Crabbe was an Anglican Bishop in the mid 20th century.

He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 15 July 1883, educated at Trent College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and ordained in 1907. After a curacy at St George’s, Newcastle-under-Lyme he was Chaplain to the Bishop of Sierra Leone. He then held Incumbencies at St Mary’s Peckham, and St Mary’s, Sheffield. From 1924 to 1936 he was Rural Dean of Greenwich then Dulwich. In 1936 he became Bishop of Mombasa. He returned to England in 1953 and was an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Portsmouth until 1958. He died on 22 October 1964. He represented Great Britain at the 1906 Olympic Games in the 800m and 1500m.