Henry Bousfield

The Rt Rev Henry Brougham Bousfield, DD, MA^[1] was a Colonial Anglican Bishop in the latter decades of the 19th century^[2] and the first of the 20th.^[3]

He was born on 27 March 1832 and educated at Merchant Taylors’ and Caius.^[4] Ordained in 1856,^[5] his first post was as a Curate at All Saints, Braishfield. From 1861 to 1870 he was Vicar of St Maurice Winchester, then Rural Dean of Andover from 1870 to 1878.

He became the inaugural Bishop of Pretoria in 1878^[6] holding the post until his death on 10 February 1902.^[7] He was instrumental in promoting the Anglican church in what is today the Limpopo Province and the Anglican Diocese of St Mark the Evangelist. At the urging of local congregants in Polokwane (then, Pietersburg) he sent Christ Church Polokwane their first rector, Rev A. Weinstein, in 1895. Christ Church Polokwane became a centre of mission work into the northern region of the Anglican Diocese of Pretoria.

Works

• Six Years in the Transvaal: notes on the founding of the church there, 1886

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Preceded by Inaugural appointment	Bishop of Pretoria 1878– 1902	Succeeded by William Marlborough Carter

Notes

v t e Bishops of Pretoria Henry Bousfield William Carter Michael Furse Neville Talbot Wilfrid Parker Robert Selby Taylor Edward Knapp-Fisher Michael Nuttall Richard Kraft Johannes Seoka

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Name	Bousfield, Henry Brougham
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Date of birth	1832
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Date of death	1902
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