Wilfrid Hornby
Wilfrid Bird Hornby was an Anglican colonial bishop at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.[1]
Born on 25 February 1851[2] and educated at Marlborough and Brasenose College, Oxford[3] he was ordained in 1876.[4] In 1880 he went on the Oxford Mission to Calcutta,[5] returning in 1884. From 1885 to 1892 he was Vicar of St Columba's, Southwick, Sunderland[6] when he was elevated to the episcopate as Bishop of Nyasaland.[7] After only two years he returned to England, where he was Rector of St Clement's Church, Norwich[8] then Vicar of Chollerton.[9] In 1904 he was appointed Bishop of Nassau, a post he held until 1919. He died on 5 June 1935.[10]
Notes
- ^ Project Canterbury
- ^ IGI record
- ^ Who was Who 1987–1990: London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
- ^ Mission history
- ^ Photo of church
- ^ The Times, Thursday, 22 December 1892; p. 7; Issue 33828; col A Ecclesiastical Intelligence
- ^ Church details
- ^ Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 737.
- ^ Deaths The Times, Friday, 7 June 1935; p. 1; Issue 47084; col A
