Archibald Fleming Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific Prefix:The Right Reverend
Archibald Fleming
Honorific Suffix:L.Th., D.D., F.R.G.S.
Appointed:-->
Term:1933–1949
Retired:-->
Successor:Donald Marsh
Ordination:13 April 1913
Ordained By:John Anderson
Consecration:21 December 1933
Consecrated By:Isaac Stringer
Birth Date:8 September 1883
Birth Place:Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Buried:Maitland Cemetery, Goderich, Ontario
Parents:Janet Livingstone & John Fleming
Spouse:Helen Grace Gillespie
Elizabeth Nelson Lukens
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Archibald Lang Fleming FRGS (8 September 188317 May 1953)[1] was the inaugural Bishop of The Arctic[2] from 1933[3] to 1949.

Biography

Fleming was educated at Greenock Academy and the University of Glasgow. He was in the drawing office at John Brown & Co, a shipyard in Clydebank, until 1906[4] when he went to Canada to prepare for missionary work at Wycliffe College.[5] Ordained in 1912,[6] he was a missionary in Baffin Island until 1916. Later he was Chaplain of his old theological college then Rector of Saint John, New Brunswick. He was Archdeacon of The Arctic from 1927[7] to his appointment to the episcopate. He was also a noted author.[8]

John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir, the Governor General of Canada, wrote to Fleming on his appointment as Bishop: Your official signature 'Archibald the Arctic' is the most romantic signature in the world and just one point ahead of 'William of Argyll and the Isles. Fleming's memoir Archibald the Arctic was published in 1957.[9]

Notes and References

  1. Bishop A. L. Fleming Mission Work In The Arctic The Times Tuesday, 19 May 1953; pg. 8; Issue 52625; col E
  2. [The Times]
  3. [Crockford's clerical directory|Crockford's Clerical Directory]
  4. http://pg.webring.com/members/blog/iqaluit/ Canadian Christians
  5. Who was Who 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991
  6. "The Clergy List" London, Kelly's, 1913
  7. https://archive.today/20120718120716/http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002852 Canadian Encyclopaedia
  8. Amongst others he wrote "For Us, a series of devotional addresses on the Seven Last Words", 1923; "A Book of Remembrance, a History of St John's Church, St John, NB", 1925; "Dwellers in Arctic Night", 1928; "Perils of the Polar Pack", 1932; and "Flying Beyond the Arctic Circle", 1933 > British Library web site accessed 18:27GMT Tuesday 18 May 2010
  9. Fleming, Archibald the Arctic, 1957