Keith Prosser
British bishop
Intro | British bishop | |
Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
is | Priest | |
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Charles Keith Kipling Prosser 1897–1954) was the fifth Bishop of Burnley from 1950 until 1954.
Educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham he served during World War I with the Royal Garrison Artillery after which he studied at Queens' College, Cambridge before ordaination in 1923. Successively curate of Bishop Latimer’s Church, Birmingham, Rector of Alert Bay, British Columbia and Rural Dean of Leigh he was ordained to the episcopate in 1950. He died in post four years later.