Arthur Pain

Arthur Wellesley Pain (21 August 1841 – 14 May 1920) was an Anglican bishop and the first Bishop of Gippsland from 1902 until 1917.[1]

Born in Felmersham and educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge,[2] he was ordained in 1866.[3] He began his career as curate of Holbrook, Suffolk before emigrating to Australia.[4] Here he was the incumbent of Narellan, NSW then Rural Dean of Camden and after that East Sydney before his ordination to the episcopate in 1902.[5][6]

Church of England titles
Preceded by
Inaugural appointment		 Bishop of Gippsland
1902 –1917		 Succeeded by
George Harvard Cranswick

Notes

  1. ^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 9780199540877
  2. ^ Pain, Arthur Wellesley in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
  3. ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
  4. ^ “In the Master's service for 52 years in Australia, Arthur Wellesley Pain”, Pain, A.F: NSW, Belrose, 1981, ISBN 0959323902
  5. ^ Diocese of Gippsland web site
  6. ^ The Times, 21 May 1902; p8; "Ecclesiastical Intelligence: Consecration of the first Bishop of Gippsland"