Lloyd Crossley

Owen Thomas Lloyd Crossley (30 April 18603 March 1926) was the fourth Anglican Bishop of Auckland for a short period during the second decade of the 20th century. Educated at the Belfast Academy and Trinity College, Dublin he was made deacon 8 June 1884 and ordained priest 31 May 1885, both times at Down; and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Seapatrick, County Down. Incumbencies at St John's Church, Egremont and Almondbury were followed by a period living in Australia, including six years (18 September 19051911) He was also Archbishop's Chaplain, a lecturer at St John's Theological College, Melbourne (1907-1911), and Chairman of Governors of Geelong Grammar School. Not long after his appointment in 1905, he was elected to a vacancy on the Council of Trinity College (University of Melbourne). On 25 March 1911, — he resigned his See effective 30 September 1913 He died after being hit by a motor-van, soon after alighting from a bus in London.