William Curzon-Siggers Explained

William Curzon-Siggers (6 May 1860 – 20 September 1947)^[1] was an Anglican priest^[2] and author^[3] in the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.^[4]

Curzon-Siggers was educated at St Boniface Missionary College, Warminster; St Augustine's College, Canterbury and University College, Durham; and ordained deacon in 1882 and priest in 1887. After Curacies in Pretoria and Ashmansworth he was vicar of Ravenswood from 1886 to 1887 then of Normanton until 1889. He was priest in charge of Lutwyche from 1889 to 1890 and then the Minister at Hamilton, Victoria until 1891. He was the priest in charge at St Stephen, Ballarat from 1891 until 1895; and vicar of St. Matthew, Dunedin^[5] from 1886 until 1922. He was archdeacon of Southland from 1920^[6] until he retired in 1933.

Notes and References

1. ‘CURZON-SIGGERS, Ven. William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 26 October 2015
2. "Blain's Directory of the Clergy of Dunedin " Copyright the Reverend Dr. Michael Blain, 2003 Reproduced online with permission at http://anglicanhistory.org
3. Amongst others he wrote "God and Religion of Science and the Bible", 1890; "Historical Review of the Immortality of the Soul", 1895; "Scholar’s Church Catechism", 1896; "The Catholic Faith", 1898; "Lessons for Sundays of the Year", 1898; "Lessons in the life of Our Lord", 1901and "Christianity and Man", 1909; British Library web site accessed 26 October 2015
4. http://www.stpeterscaversham.org.nz/The%20Rock/1406.pdf The Rock
5. "A Concise History of New Zealand" Smith, P.M p120: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012
6. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p303 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1908