Percival Stephenson Explained

The Rt Rev Percival William Stephenson was the 6th Anglican bishop of Nelson[1] whose episcopate spanned a 14-year period in the mid-20th century.

Family

The son of Arthur Henry Stephenson (1867-1955),[2] and Annie Amelia Vevers Stephenson (1865-1903), née Brailey,[3] Percival William Stephenson was born at Malmsbury, Victoria on 5 May 1888.

He married Grace Ermyntrude Lavender (1885-1974) on 9 October 1913.[4] [5] They three children, Millicent Lavender Stephenson (1914-),[6] Arthur Lavender Stephenson (1917-2001),[7] and Noel Lavender Stephenson (1920-). Percival Stephenson died in 1962.

Education

He was educated at Caulfield Grammar School, Melbourne,[8] where he was an outstanding footballer in the school's First XVIII,[9] the University of Melbourne, the Australian College of Theology, and the University of London.

Cleric

He was ordained in 1914.[10]

Academic

He moved to India to teach at CMS Edwards College in Peshawar, where he was initially a teacher and then principal (1921–1924). From 1924 to 1928 he was professor of exegetical theology at St John's College, Winnipeg.[11]

On his return to Australia he became federal secretary of the Church Missionary Society of Australia and Tasmania and headmaster of Trinity Grammar School, Sydney (1935–37)[12] and then commonwealth secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society until his elevation to the episcopate in 1940.

Death

He died on 29 May 1962.[13]

See also

Notes

  1. [Who's Who (UK)|"Who was Who"]
  2. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71888945 Deaths: Stephenson, The Argus, (Saturday, 18 June 1955), p.13.
  3. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/190636064 Marriages: Stephenson—Brailey, The Age, (Saturday, 2 July 1887), p.5.
  4. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/138098159 Births: Lavender, The Australasian, (Saturday, 16 May 1885), p.3.
  5. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/7255054 Stephenson—Lavender, The Argus, (Saturday, 29 November 1913), p.11.
  6. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/92054735 Birth: Stephenson, The Bendigonian, (Tuesday, 25 August 1914), p.7.
  7. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/90303006 Births: Stephenson, The Bendigo Advertiser, (Tuesday, 20 November 1917), p.4.
  8. Webber (1981), p.316.
  9. Wilkinson (1997), p.39.
  10. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
  11. Web site: Archives: Head Masters. Trinity Grammar School. 18 April 2015.
  12. http://www.trinity.nsw.edu.au/ School web site
  13. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19620531&id=_6ATAAAAIBAJ&sjid=G6wDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5844,4640373 News of death

References

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