The Life of Bishop Ravenscroft, written by John Nicholas Norton and published in 1858, is a biography of John Stark Ravenscroft, the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. The book provides a detailed account of Ravenscroft's life, from his birth in Virginia in 1772 to his death in North Carolina in 1830. It covers his early education, his ordination as a priest, his work as a missionary in Virginia and North Carolina, and his eventual...