Introduction
Arthur William Thomson Perowne (13 June 1867 – 9 April 1948) was an Anglican bishop in Britain. He was the first Bishop of Bradford and, from 1931, was the Bishop of Worcester.
Early life
He was born into a distinguished ecclesiastical family: his father was John James Stewart Perowne, sometime Bishop of Worcester. He was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and King's College, Cambridge.
Early ministry
Ordained in 1894, he began his ministry as a curate at Hartlebury and then was Vicar of St Philip and St James Hallow, Rural Dean of Edgbaston, Prebendary of Exeter and finally (before his ordination to the episcopate) Archdeacon of Plymouth.
Bishop
Initially the first Bishop of Bradford (1920-1931), he was translated to Worcester in 1931.
Personal life
In 1895, he married Helena Frances Oldnall-Russell (1869-1922). They had three sons: Francis Edward Perowne (1898-1988), Stewart Perowne, a diplomat, archaeologist and historian, and Leslie Arthur Perowne (1906-1997), sometime Head of Music at the BBC, who was responsible for bringing Albert Ketèlbey out of retirement to conduct a huge BBC Ketèlbey Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, prior to World War II.
A keen fisherman, he lived retirement in Gloucester with his second wife, Mabel (1886-1968), the second daughter of Thomas Henry Bailey of Wyldcroft in Wokingham, whom he had married in 1926.