Type: | Bishop |
Henry Sidwell | |
Bishop of George | |
Diocese: | Diocese of George |
Term: | 1911–1936 |
Successor: | Herbert Gwyer |
Other Post: | Archdeacon of Pretoria |
Ordination: | 1889 |
Death Place: | George, Cape Province, South Africa |
Nationality: | South African |
Religion: | Anglicanism |
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Henry Bindley Sidwell (1857 – 31 August 1936) was the first Bishop of George, the first South African-born bishop to head a diocese.[1]
He was born in Grahamstown and educated at the University of the Cape of Good Hope. Ordained in 1889 he began his career with a curacy in Johannesburg after which he was rector of Middleburg and then Archdeacon of Pretoria[2] before his appointment to the episcopate. He died in post on 31 August 1936.