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denton thompson
 bishop my lord the right reverend
denton thompson

james denton thompson -lrb- 20 july 1856 -- 31 october 1924 -rrb- was the bishop of sodor and man from 1912 until his death in 1924 .
thompson was and educated at the liverpool institute and corpus christi college , cambridge .
he was ordained in 1883 and held curacies at st james , didsbury and st saviour 's , liverpool .
from 1886 to 1889 he was clerical superintendent of the church of england scripture readers ' society .
after this he held incumbencies in bootle , north meols and birmingham before ordination to the episcopate .
