Charles Abraham (bishop of Derby)

Charles Abraham
Charles Abraham
Bishop of Derby
	Abraham in 1910
Church	Church of England
Diocese	Bishop of Derby (suffragan)
See	Diocese of Southwell
Personal details
Born	1857
Died	27 January 1945
Parents	Charles Abraham; Caroline Abraham
Children	Philip Selwyn Abraham

Charles Thomas Abraham (1857 – 27 January 1945) was a British Anglican minister who served as the bishop of Derby from 1909 until 1927.^[1]

Life

Abraham was born in 1857. He was the son of Charles and Caroline Abraham.^[2] He was educated at Keble College, Oxford.^[3] Ordained in 1881, he began his career with a curacy at St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury^[4] and was subsequently Vicar of All Saints, Shrewsbury and Christ Church, Lichfield before succeeding Edward Were as the bishop of Derby (suffragan).^[5] His father, Charles,^[6] and his son, Philip,^[7] were also bishops; another son, Geoffrey, was killed in action during the First World War.^[8] Another son, Jasper, was notorious for killing a Kenyan servant by flogging in 1923; the light sentence he received provoked a change in the legal system of Kenya Colony.^[9]

After Bishop Abraham retired, a cousin bequeathed Little Moreton Hall in Congleton to him.^[10] He died on 27 January 1945.

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^ Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 405.
^ Bishop Abraham Memorial The TimesTuesday, Mar 31, 1903; pg. 15; Issue 37042; col B
^ Obituary-The Bishop Of Newfoundland Right Rev. P. S. Abraham The Times Saturday, Dec 24, 1955; pg. 9; Issue 53412; col A
^ "Roll of Honour - Derbyshire - Bakewell". www.roll-of-honour.com.
^ Anderson, David M. (September 2011). "Punishment, Race and 'The Raw Native': Settler Society and Kenya's Flogging Scandals, 1895–1930". Journal of Southern African Studies. 37 (3): 479–497. doi:10.1080/03057070.2011.602887. S2CID 143999794.
^ "Little Moreton Hall: Cheshire's Crooked House". www.timetravel-britain.com.