James Horstead

The Most Rev James Lawrence Cecil Horstead CMG, CBE, DD (16 February 1898 - 9 June 1989) was an Anglican Bishop of Sierra Leone who later became Archbishop of West Africa.
He was educated at Christ’s Hospital ^[1] and (after World War I service)^[2] Durham University. He was ordained in 1924^[3] and began his career with a curacy at St Margaret’s Church, Durham.^[4] Emigrating to Africa he was Principal of Fourah Bay College until 1936 when he was elevated to the Episcopate. In 1955 he became the Province’s Primate, retiring in 1961. He was Rector of Appleby Magna until 1968 and an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Leicester untio 1976.

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Preceded by George William Wright	Bishop of Sierra Leone 1936 – 1961	Succeeded by Moses Scott
Preceded by Leslie Gordon Vining	Archbishop of West Africa 1955 – 1961	Succeeded by Cecil John Patterson

References

v t e Bishops of Sierra Leone Owen Vidal John Weeks John Bowen Edward Beckles Henry Cheetham Graham Ingham John Taylor Smith Edmund Elwin John Walmsley George Wright James Horstead Moses Scott Prince Thompson Julius Lynch

v t e Archbishops of West Africa Leslie Vining James Horstead Cecil Patterson Moses Scott Ishmael Mills Le-Marie George Browne Robert Okine Justice Akrofi Solomon Tilewa Johnson

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Name	Horstead, James Lawrence Cecil
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Date of birth	16 February 1898
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Date of death	9 June 1989
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