John Baptist Crozier (8 April 1853 – 11 April 1920) was a Church of Ireland bishop. He served as Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin (1897–1907), Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore (1907–1911), Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh (1911–1920). Early life John Baptist Crozier, eldest son of the Reverend Baptist Barton Crozier (1807-1878) and Catherine Mary Crozier (née Bolland) of Rockview House, Knockfad, Ballyhaise, was born in the townland of Knockfad, Ballyhaise, County Cavan, on 8 April 1853. His paternal grandfather, John Crozier (–1814), was a member of a family long seated at Gortra House, between Magheraveely and Newtownbutler in the south-east of County Fermanagh, and his uncle was Captain John Crozier (1791-1852), an officer in the Fermanagh Militia and a Justice of the Peace. His mother was a daughter of John Bolland of Dublin. Ministry He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin (T.C.D.), with a B.A. degree in 1872, a M.A. degree in 1875, and a B.D. and D.D. degree in 1888. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy from 1916. He was a keen horseman, vice-president of the Holywood Cricket Club and one of the earliest members of The Wanderers Football Club of Dublin. His extensive ministry began in 1876 in St Stephen's, Belfast. Successive appointments followed to: St. Anne's Parish Church on Donegall Street in Belfast (1877); Holywood, County Down (1880); Dunsford in Down Cathedral (1889); St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin (1896); and as chaplain to Bishop Knox (1885), to the Lord Bishop of Down (Welland) (1892), and to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1891). He was elected Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin on 20 October 1897 and consecrated in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, on 30 November 1897. He translated to the Diocese of Down, Connor and Dromore in 1907, and on 2 February 1911 was elected, unanimously by the house of bishops, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland. He was enthroned in St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, on 17 March 1911 in succession to Archbishop Alexander who had resigned due to ill-health. A special train brought hundreds of people from Belfast for the ceremony, which was so crowded that several hundreds had to be refused admission. In 1910, the then Bishop Crozier contributed Essay No. 28 in the 40-strong series Duty and Discipline. His family He married, on 12 September 1877, Alice Isabella Hackett, third daughter of John and Jane