Cecil Richard Rutt CBE was an English Roman Catholic priest and a former Anglican bishop.
17 Facts About Richard Rutt
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Some years after he retired as an Anglican bishop, Richard Rutt was one of several Anglicans received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1994.
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Richard Rutt was ordained a Roman Catholic priest the following year and spent the closing years of his life in Cornwall.
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Richard Rutt was the son of Cecil Richard Rutt and Mary Hare.
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Richard Rutt was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1973.
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In 1982 Richard Rutt, who was always strongly inclined to Anglo-Catholicism, voted against the unity covenant with the Methodist, Moravian and United Reformed churches.
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Richard Rutt retired on 1 October 1990 and went to live in Falmouth, in the Cornwall he had come to love.
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Richard Rutt died in his 87th year at Treliske Hospital, Truro.
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Richard Rutt spent his last years in residence at St Mary Immaculate Parish in Falmouth.
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Richard Rutt was an active member of the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch, serving on the council, overseeing its publications and serving as its president in 1974.
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Richard Rutt published six scholarly papers in the RASKB's journal, Transactions, most of which reveal his deep knowledge of the Classical Chinese used in pre-modern Korea.
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Richard Rutt later assisted the historical research of the Anglican priest Roger Tennant as well as co-authoring the encyclopaedia Korea: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary with Keith Pratt.
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Richard Rutt was a member of both the Association of Korean Studies in Europe founded by William E Skillend of SOAS and the British Association for Korean Studies.
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In particular, Richard Rutt was fascinated by traditional and formal sijo and older forms of Korean poetry in general.
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Richard Rutt owned a large collection of books related to Korea, including some rare Korean volumes, which he donated to the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.
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Richard Rutt developed a passionate interest in knitting and authored a history of the craft in A History of Hand Knitting.
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Richard Rutt married Joan Ford in Hong Kong in May 1969.