Wilfrid Hornby Explained
Wilfrid Bird Hornby was an Anglican colonial bishop at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.[1]
Born on 25 February 1851[2] and educated at Marlborough and Brasenose College, Oxford[3] he was ordained in 1876.[4] In 1880 he went on the Oxford Mission to Calcutta,[5] returning in 1884. From 1885 to 1892 he was Vicar of St Columba's, Southwick, Sunderland[6] when he was elevated to the episcopate as Bishop of Nyasaland.[7] After only two years he returned to England, where he was Rector of St Clement's Church, Norwich[8] then Vicar of Chollerton.[9] In 1904 he was appointed Bishop of Nassau, a post he held until 1919. He died on 5 June 1935.[10]
Notes
- http://anglicanhistory.org/africa/umca/smythies/11.html Project Canterbury
- http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/IGI/individual_record.asp?recid=100396406535&lds=1®ion=0®ionfriendly=Africa&frompage=99 IGI record
- [Who's Who|Who was Who 1987–1990]
- "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
- http://www.vivekananda.net/PDFBooks/A_History_of_the_Oxford_Mission_to_Calcu.pdf Mission history
- http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/public/editable/themes/local-heritage/listedbuildings/Images/9201832.jpg Photo of church
- [The Times]
- http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/norwichclement/norwichclement.htm Church details
- Book: [[Richard Malden|Malden Richard (ed)]] . Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn) . London . The Field Press. 737. 1920 .
- Deaths The Times, Friday, 7 June 1935; p. 1; Issue 47084; col A
