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Born in Liverpool and was the son of the Robert Alexander Bickersteth and Ellen Constance Wilson, of Borwick Lodge, Outgate, Ambleside. Educated at Eton. Admitted as a pensioner at Magdalene College on 7 October 1924. His tutor was A. S. Ramsey. MA 1931.
After leaving Magdalene he trained at Wells Theological College.
1928 deacon
1929 priest
1928-1932 his first curacy was at Christ Church, Waterloo, Liverpool.
22 Nov 1931 he was made curate of Christ Church, Whitehaven with his primary responsibility being St Peters, Kells.
In 1933 he was defrocked for "immoral conduct".
He visited New York with his brother. He is shown, on the electoral register, as living in Paddington in London in the late 1930s.
He died in 1945.
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11 items, 10 paper and 1 photographic print