John Nathaniel Quirk

John Nathaniel Quirk was an Anglican Bishop in the first quarter of the 20th century. Born in 1849 into an ecclesiastical family [His father was "The Rev. Charles Thomas Quirk, MA", sometime Rector of Golborne- “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X] and educated at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge,he was ordained in 1874. His first post was as a curate at "St Leonard's, Bridgnorth" [ [http://www.bridgnorthguide.info/bridgnorth_tour/tour_02.shtml Information about the church] ] after which he was successively Vicar of "St Thomas's, Douglas ", "St Mary, Beverley " and "St Paul, Lorrimore Square " before being appointed Rural Dean of Bath in 1895. In 1901 he became the first (and as it turned out) only Suffragan Bishop of Sheffield [The Times, Wednesday, Sep 11, 1901; pg. 8; Issue 36557; col E "Ecclesiastical Intelligence Inaugural Bishop of Sheffield".] . When it was selected to form the centre of a new diocese [ [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/YORKSGEN/2000-12/0976448604 History of Diocese] ] Quirk was translated to be the 2nd Bishop of Jarrow [The Times, Saturday, May 02, 1914; pg. 10; Issue 40513; col E "New Bishop Of Jarrow"] . He died on 26 April 1924, his wife a decade later [The Times, Monday, Aug 27, 1934; pg. 1; Issue 46843; col A "Deaths Mary Jane Quirk"] .

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