John Baptist Crozier

John Baptist Crozier (8 April 1853 – 11 April 1920) was a Church of Ireland bishop. He served as Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin (1897–1907), Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore (1907–1911), Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh (1911–1920). Early life John Baptist Crozier, eldest son of the Reverend Baptist Barton Crozier (1807-1878) and Catherine Mary Crozier (née Bolland) of Rockview House, Knockfad, Ballyhaise, was born in the townland of Knockfad, Ballyhaise, County Cavan, on 8 April 1853. His paternal grandfather, John Crozier (–1814), was a member of a family long seated at Gortra House, between Magheraveely and Newtownbutler in the south-east of County Fermanagh, and his uncle was Captain John Crozier (1791-1852), an officer in the Fermanagh Militia and a Justice of the Peace. His mother was a daughter of John Bolland of Dublin. Ministry He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin (T.C.D.), with a B.A. degree in 1872, a M.A. degree in 1875, and a B.D. and D.D. degree in 1888. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy from 1916. He was a keen horseman, vice-president of the Holywood Cricket Club and one of the earliest members of The Wanderers Football Club of Dublin. His extensive ministry began in 1876 in St Stephen's, Belfast. Successive appointments followed to: St. Anne's Parish Church on Donegall Street in Belfast (1877); Holywood, County Down (1880); Dunsford in Down Cathedral (1889); St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin (1896); and as chaplain to Bishop Knox (1885), to the Lord Bishop of Down (Welland) (1892), and to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1891).