Jervois Arthur Newnham was an Anglican bishop in Canada from 1893 to 1921.
Born into an ecclesiastical family in 1852,[1] he was educated at McGill University and began his ordained ministry as a curate at Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal[2] after which he was the incumbent of Onslow. Later he was the rector of St Matthias' Montreal.[3] He became the Bishop of Moosonee in 1891[4] and was translated to Saskatchewan in 1904.[5] He returned to England in 1921, becoming the rector of Clifton, Bedfordshire[6]
Newnham died on 12 January 1941.[7]
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