The Rt Rev 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 1992 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 Clements, Norwich[8] then Vicar of Chollerton. In 1904 he was appointed Bishop of Nassau, a post he held until 1919. He died on 5 June 1935.[9]
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| Preceded by Charles Alan Smythies |
Bishop of Nyasaland 1892 –1894 |
Succeeded by Chauncy Maples |
| Preceded by Henry Norris Churton |
Bishop of Nassau 1904 –1919 |
Succeeded by Roscow George Shedden |
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