Alfred Walter Averill

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Alfred Walter Averill (b 7 October 1865 - d 6 July 1957) was the 5th Anglican Bishop of Auckland whose Episcopate spanned a 25 year period during the first half of the 20th Century ^[1] . Born in Staffordshire he was educated at King Edward VI School, Stafford and St John's College, Oxford ^[2] before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St George's Hanover Square^[3]. Emigrating to New Zealand in 1894 he was successively Vicar of St Michael’s and All Angels^[4] in Christchurch and Archdeacon of Akaroa before elevation to the See of Waiapu in 1910. Translated to Auckland four years later he was further promoted to be Archbishop of New Zealand in 1925.

Religious titles
Preceded by William Leonard Williams	Bishop of Waiapu 1910–1914	Succeeded by William Walmsley Sedgwick
Preceded by Owen Thomas Lloyd Crossley	Bishop of Auckland, NZ 1914–1940	Succeeded by William John Simkin
Preceded by Churchill Julius	Archbishop of New Zealand 1925–1940	Succeeded by Campbell West-Watson

[edit] Notes

1. ^ The Times, Monday, Jul 08, 1957; pg. 10; Issue 53887; col G Most Rev. A. W. Averill Late Primate Of New Zealand
2. ^ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X
3. ^ The Times, Tuesday, Dec 25, 1888; pg. 10; Issue 32578; col C Newly appointed Deacons in London
4. ^ Church web-site

v • d • e Bishops of Waiapu William Williams • Edward Craig Stuart • William Leonard Williams • Alfred Walter Averill • William Walmsley Sedgwick • Herbert William Williams • George Vincent Gerard • G C Cruickshank • Norman Alfred Lesser • Paul Reeves • Ralph Vernon Matthews • Peter Geoffrey Atkins • John Murray Mills • John William Bluck • David Rice

v • d • e Anglican Bishops of Auckland, NZ George Augustus Selwyn • William Garden Cowie • Moore Richard Neligan • Owen Thomas Lloyd Crossley • Alfred Walter Averill • William John Simkin • Eric Austin Gowing • Paul Reeves • Bruce Carlyle Gilberd • John Campbell Paterson •

v • d • e Primates and Archbishops of New Zealand George Augustus Selwyn • Henry Harper • Octavius Hadfield • William Cowie • Churchill Julius • Alfred Walter Averill • Campbell West-Watson • Reginald Owen • Norman Alfred Lesser • Allen Johnston • Paul Reeves • Brian Davis • Whakahuihui Vercoe • John William Bluck • William Brown Turei with David Moxon and Jabez Leslie Bryce  •