Background
Poskitt was born in the village of Birkin in the south-west of the Selby district of North Yorkshire.
Poskitt was born in the village of Birkin in the south-west of the Selby district of North Yorkshire.
He was the fourth Bishop of Leeds. He was ordained to the Catholic priesthood on 15 July 1917 by Joseph Robert Cowgill, then Bishop of Leeds, at the age of 28. Poskitt then served as a curate in parishes of the diocese.
On 19 August 1936, he was appointed by the Holy See as the 4th Bishop of Leeds, succeeding Cowgill.
He received his episcopal consecration on 21 September from the Archbishop of Liverpool, Richard Downey, with Bishop Joseph Thorman and Bishop John Francis McNulty serving as co-consecrators. Poskitt died 19 February 1950 and was buried at Saint Edward the Confessor Church in Clifford, West Yorkshire.