Augustine Scriven Explained

Augustine Scriven (185221 July 1916)^[1] was an eminent Anglican priest in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth.^[2]

He was born in Spernall, Sambourne, Warwickshire^[3] and educated at St Mary Hall, Oxford^[4] and ordained in 1875.^[5] After curacies at Kirkham and Frindsbury^[6] he held incumbencies at Martinhoe^[7] and St Peter, Rochester. In 1884 he became Archdeacon of Vancouver^[8] a post he held until his appointment to the episcopate as Bishop of British Columbia in 1915.^[9]

Notes and References

1. [The Times]
2. http://aabc.bc.ca/WWW.angbc.archbc/display.ANGBC-639 British Columbia Archival Union List
3. http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Martinhoe/Martinhoe1861.html Genuki (1)
4. University Intelligence The Times Thursday, 5 April 1888; p. 10; Issue 32352; col C
5. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
6. [Who's Who|"Who was Who"]
7. http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Martinhoe/Martinhoe1881.html Genuki (2)
8. http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/print.cgi?scriven::229.html Gen Forum
9. [The Times]