Thomas Craske

Craske was born on 11 May 1901, son of William James Craske, and educated at King's College London. He therefore graduated Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the University of London and Associate of King's College (AKC) before embarking on an ecclesiastical career. ==Priestly ministry==

He was made deacon at Michaelmas 1927 (2 October) by Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London, at St Paul's Cathedral (by letters dimissory from the Bishop of Manchester) and ordained priest the following Michaelmas (23 September 1928) by William Temple, Bishop of Manchester, at Manchester Cathedral. He served his title (curacy) at St Chrysostom's Church, Victoria Park (Manchester). He was on the staff of the Student Christian Movement of Great Britain from 1929 until 1932 (as International Secretary until 1930, and as London Secretary thereafter); during which time he was also an assistant curate at All Hallows Lombard Street (City of London) and a lecturer at King's College in 1932. (1942–1944) and a Select Preacher at Cambridge in 1943. He was representative of the British Council of Churches in Germany, 1950–1953, serving also as an Examining Chaplain for Vernon Smith, Bishop of Leicester. ==Episcopal ministry==

Craske was consecrated into bishop's orders on St Andrew's Day 1953 (30 November), by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Canterbury Cathedral. While Bishop of Gibraltar, he became a Fellow of King's College in 1954; in 1956. He resigned his See in 1959 to become Moderator of the Central Advisory Council for the Ministry (1959–1965); he served as Assistant Bishop of London from 1961 until his death at home in Raynes Park. He became Chairman of the Prison Chaplaincies Council of the Church Assembly in the same year. ==Notes==