Eric Treacy
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The Right Reverend Bishop Eric Treacy MBE (1907 — 13 May 1978) was a British railway photographer and Bishop of Wakefield.
Biography
Treacy was born in London. In 1932 he was made a Deacon in the Church of England, and also took up railway photography, being inspired by a visit to Liverpool Lime Street.
His photography was interrupted by being an Army Padre during the Second World War, for which he was awarded an MBE. After the war, he became Rector of Keighley and in 1949 was appointed Archdeacon of Halifax.
In 1961 Treacy became Suffragen Bishop of Pontefract and in 1968 he was made Bishop of Wakefield.
Treacy died from a heart attack on Appleby Station on the Settle-Carlisle Railway waiting for BR 92220 Evening Star. A plaque is there to his memory. He is buried at St Kentigern's Church Crosthwaite, Keswick.
The Treacy Collection of 12,000 photographs forms part of the National Railway Museum's archive of over 1.4 million images.
Bibliography
The following are photographs albums of Treacy's work:
- Eric Treacy. (1976) Roaming the Northern Rails ISBN 0711006555
- Eric Treacy (1977) Roaming the East Coast Main Line Ian Allan. ISBN 0711008124
- Eric Treacy (1969) Lure of Steam Ian Allan ISBN 0711000980 1980 reprint ISBN 0711009007
- Eric Treacy (1981, reprint(?) Glory of Steam Ian Allan ISBN 0711011710
- G. Freeman Allen, (1982) Great Railway Photographs by Eric Treacy Peerage Books, London
- P.B.Whitehouse & G.Freeman Allen (1982) Eric Treacy: Railway Photographer
- P.Whitehouse & J.Powell (1985) Treacy's Routes North
- P.Whitehouse & J.Powell (1990) Treacy's British Rail
- Eric Treacy (1991 reprint) Portrait of Steam ISBN 1856480100
- Eric Treacy (1994) The Best of Eric Treacy Atlantic Transport Publishers ISBN 1858770076
- David Jenkinson (1997) Eric Treacy's LMS Oxford Publishing Company ISBN 0-86093-381-4
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| Preceded by: John Alexander Ramsbotham | Bishop of Wakefield 1968-1977 | Followed by: Colin Clement Walter James |
