Owen Thomas Lloyd Crossley (b 30 April 1860 - d 3 March 1926) was the 4th 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

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  he began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Sea Patrick County Down

County Down

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 . Incumbencies

Vicar

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 at Egremont

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and Almondbury

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 were followed by a period as Archdeacon

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 of Geelong before he was elevated to the episcopate

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 in 1911. Ill health prompted his return from New Zealand

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 two years later and he served the remainder of his career as Rector

Rector

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 of St Andrew's Major near Cardiff

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. He died in a road accident.