CROTTY, Horace
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Chaplains' Department |
| Born: | Bleasby, Nottingham, England, 9 October 1886 |
| Home Town: | North Sydney, North Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Melbourne Grammar, University of Melbourne |
| Occupation: | Church of England Clerk of Holy Orders |
| Died: | Brighton, London, England, 16 January 1952, aged 65 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 2 Mar 1918: | Involvement Australian Army Chaplains' Department, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Ormonde embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
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| 2 Mar 1918: | Embarked Australian Army Chaplains' Department, SS Ormonde, Sydney |
DEANERY 0F NEWCASTLE
Offer to the Rev. Horace Crotty The Rev. Horace Crotty, rector of St. Thomas's, North Sydney, has been offered the appointment of Dean of Newcastle. Mr. Crotty, who is In his 34th year was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and Melbourne University, after which he was head master of All Saints' Grammar School. His first church was at Ivanhoe (Victoria), and he was appointed rector at St. Thomas's some six years ago.
Seventeen months ago Mr. Crotty was confronted with two calls, one to St. John's. Toorak, and one to the front. He chose the latter, and enlisting as a chaplain, was in France with the 10th Battalion. He also acted as education officer for the Third Brigade, and was in close association with the Bishop of Bathurst, Dr. Long, in the work of the education service. Mr. Crotty returned to Australia early In April last by the Ascanlus, on which ho acted as education officer. He was, and Is, a warm friend and admirer of the Digger, and was also extremely keen en the value of the work of the Education Service, which he held was not realized In this country.
The Sun Thursday 07 August 1919 page 8
Submitted 31 March 2018 by Faithe Jones
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
BISHOP CROTTY DEAD
Right Rev. Horace Crotty, Dean of Newcastle from 1919 till 1928 and Bishop of Bathurst from 1928 till 1936, died in London on Wednesday.
Dr. Crotty, 65, took ill at a meeting of the Lower House Convocation of Canterbury in Church House, Westminster. He died on the way to hospital.
He was Rural Dean and Vicar of Hove (Sussex). The Bishop of Newcastle (Rev. F.de Witt, Batty) will conduct Requiem Eucharist for Dr. Crotty in the Warriors' Chapel at Christ Church Cathedral at 7 a.m. On Tuesday.
Bishop's Tribute
Bishop Batty said last night that it was a great shock to hear of the death of Dr. Crotty. "Dr. Crotty and I had been in fairly constant communication," he said. "He always took the greatest interest in the Cathedral, and he and I had been friends for more than 30 years.
"He was a preacher of great distinction, with a gift for picturesque phraseology. He was at his best in large churches and speaking to large congregations. "His ministry at St. Thomas's, North Sydney, where he was rector for six. or seven years, will make him well remembered, and also his time at Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle, in which he did probably his best work in Australia. "The Warrior's Chapel was conceived .by his heart and mind, and he would probably regard this as his best visible memorial in. Newcastle. "Although it is nearly 25 years since he left Newcastle, he still has a host of friends here. The news of his death will bring for many keen personal bereavement." Dr. Crotty was born at
Bleasby, near Nottingham, England, where his father. Rev. E. C. Crotty, held a rural living. When his father volunteered for oversea service in Australia, the family came to Newcastle. Dr. Crotty's father held several posts in this diocese.
Brilliant Scholar
Dr. Crotty was educated at the Melbourne Grammar School and Trinity College, Melbourne University, where he won two open scholarships.
His university career was meteoric. He gained first place in the first-class honours list in every year of his course, being successively exhibitioner in logic and in philosophy, and the university's final scholar in the school of mental and moral philosophy, graduating at 20 with a brilliant B.A. degree. In his theological training he was again awarded first position in the first-class honour list for the Th.L. examination. He was subsequently awarded his Doctorate of Divinity by Toronto University, and the Fellowship of the Australian College of Theology. Dr. Crotty began his career as resident master under Bishop Long at Trinity Grammar School, Kew. Thence he rapidly passed to the head mastership of the Church of England Grammar School, St. Kilda, which he left in 1911, becoming vicar of St. James's, Ivanhoe, Melbourne. After a year's ministry there, he was elected to the important living of St. Peter's, Ballarat, but refused preferment. In the next year, a call came from the parish of St. Thomas's, North Sydney one of the most important parish churches of Australia. There he exercised a memorable ministry for six years, restoring the fabric of the magnificent parish church at a cost of many thousand pounds. In 1917 he was called to the living of St. John's, Toorak, Melbourne, but again refused, and enlisted as a chaplain in the A.I.F., in which he saw active service with the 10th Brigade, being with them through all the later operations on the Somme. He subsequently was associated with Bishop Long, occupying a position on his staff when Bishop Long was Director-General in charge of the education service. Shortly after his return to his charge of St. Thomas's, Dr. Crotty was elected Dean of Newcastle, a position which he filled till his appointment as Bishop of Bathurst on January 31, 1928.
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate Friday 18 January 1952 page 2
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