Wilfrid Hornby

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

  1. ^ Project Canterbury
  2. ^ IGI record
  3. ^ Who was Who 1987–1990: London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  4. ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
  5. ^ Mission history
  6. ^ Photo of church
  7. ^ The Times, Thursday, 22 December 1892; p. 7; Issue 33828; col A Ecclesiastical Intelligence
  8. ^ Church details
  9. ^ Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 737.
  10. ^ Deaths The Times, Friday, 7 June 1935; p. 1; Issue 47084; col A
Religious titles
Preceded byas Bishop in Central Africa Bishop of Nyasaland
1892 –1894 		Succeeded byas Bishop of Likoma
Preceded by Bishop of Nassau
1904 –1919 		Succeeded by


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