John Quirk

John Nathaniel Quirk (1849 – 26 April 1924) was an Anglican bishop.

Quirk was the son of Charles Thomas Quirk, sometime rector of Golborne. After being educated at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge, he was ordained deacon in 1874 and priest in the following year.

His first post was as a curate at St Leonard's, Bridgnorth, where he served for four years, after which he was at Doncaster. He was Vicar of St Thomas's, Douglas, for a year, then successively Vicar of Rotherham, of St Mary′s, Beverley and of St Paul′s, Lorrimore Square, before being appointed Canon of York in 1888. He was appointed Rector and Rural Dean of Bath in 1895, where he was heavily involved with the restoration of Bath Abbey. Quirk had recently been nominated Vicar Designate of Doncaster, when in September 1901 he became the first and (as it turned out) only Bishop of Sheffield to be a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of York. He was consecrated as a bishop in York Minister on 18 October 1901. In May 1902 he received the degree Doctor of Divinity (DD) from the University of Cambridge.