John Walmsley (14 October 1867, in Hereford – 9 December 1922, in Freetown)[1] was an English Anglican missionary bishop for the Anglican Diocese of Sierra Leone in the early twentieth century, from 1910 to his death in 1922.[2]
Walmsley was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford. and ordained in 1890.[3] After a curacy at Stokenham he was Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford from 1894 to 1898.[4] He held incumbencies at St Giles, Normanton-by-Derby and St Ann, Nottingham.
Walmsley served as Bishop of Sierra Leone from 1910 until his death.[5]
Anglican History website John Walmsley Ninth Bishop of Sierra Leone: A Memoir for his Friends, arranged by E. G. Walmsley (1923) (online copy)