Background
Arthur Perowne was born into a distinguished ecclesiastical family: his father was John James Stewart Perowne, sometime Bishop of Worcester.
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Arthur Perowne
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He was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and King"s College, Cambridge.
Career
He was the first Bishop of Bradford and, from 1931, was the Bishop of Worcester. Ordained in 1894, he began his ministry as a curate at Hartlebury after which he was Vicar of Street Philip and Street James Hallow, Rural Dean of Edgbaston, Prebendary of Exeter and finally (before his ordination to the episcopate) Archdeacon of Plymouth. Initially the first Bishop of Bradford (1920-1931), he was translated to Worcester in 1931.
They had three sons: Francis Edward Perowne (1898-1988), Stewart Perowne, a diplomat, archaeologist and historian, and Leslie Arthur Perowne (1906-1997), sometime Head of Music at the British Broadcasting Corporation who was responsible for bringing Albert Ketèlbey out of retirement to conduct a huge British Broadcasting Corporation Ketèlbey Concert at the Royal Albert Hall prior to World World War World War II
