Arthur Burgett

Arthur Edward Burgett was a Canadian Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century.

Born in 1869, he was educated at Radley and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1898.

After eight years in the Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment he served a curacy in Tottenham. Moving to Canada he was a missionary within the Anglican Diocese of Quebec and Chaplain to the Bishop 1914. He was Rector of St Paul’s, Quebec, and then Archdeacon of Assiniboia from 1918 to 1924 and of Edmonton North until his elevation to the Episcopate as the second Bishop of Edmonton.

He died on 13 December 1942.