Arthur Burgett

Arthur Edward Burgett[1] (1869 – 13 December 1942) was an Anglican bishop serving Alberta, Canada in the first half of the 20th century.[2]

Burgett was born in Calcutta[3] and educated at Radley and Trinity Hall, Cambridge,[4][5] and ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1898.[6]

After eight years in the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment he served a curacy in Tottenham. Moving to Canada he was a missionary within the Anglican Diocese of Quebec and Chaplain to the Bishop[7] 1914. He was Rector of St Paul's, Quebec, and then Archdeacon of Assiniboia from 1918 to 1924[8] and of Edmonton North until his appointment to the episcopate as the second Bishop of Edmonton.

Burgett was made a deacon in 1897[3] and ordained a priest in Lent 1898 – both times by Mandell Creighton, Bishop of London, at St Paul's Cathedral;[9] He was consecrated a bishop on 13 January 1932 by Isaac Stringer, Archbishop of Rupert's Land, at All Saints' Pro-Cathedral, Edmonton and installed there at the same service.[3]