Horace Crotty

Who was Horace Crotty?

Horace Crotty was a noted liberal Anglican bishop. He was the Anglican Bishop of Bathurst in Australia from 1928 to 1936.

Crotty was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and Trinity College in the same city. Ordained in 1910 while head teacher of All Saints' Grammar School, Melbourne he was Vicar of Ivanhoe, then Rector of St Thomas's North Sydney before a period as a wartime chaplain. When peace returned he was appointed Dean of Newcastle where he served until his elevation to the Colonial Episcopate. On the resignation of his see he was appointed Vicar of St Pancras, London. A noted Freemason, in 1943 he retired to Brighton where he died nine years later.