Frederic Beaven

The Rt Rev Frederick Hicks Beaven, DD was Bishop of Mashonaland[1] from 1911[2] to 1925.

He was born in Calne on 11 April 1855, educated at Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne Minster and University College, Durham[3] and ordained in 1879. His first post was a curacy at St Martin's Church, Brighton.[4] He then held incumbencies at All Saints', Newborough, Staffordshire, St Chad's, Stafford and St Paul's, Burton upon Trent (1887-1901). An Acting Chaplain to the Forces in the Second Boer War, from 1903 he was Archdeacon of Matabeleland. In 1908 he became Dean of Salisbury, now Harare, his last appointment before elevation to the Episcopate in 1911.[5] He died on 22 January 1941.[6]

References

  1. In 1915 the Diocese name was changed to Diocese of Southern Rhodesia > Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975, ISBN (invalid) 0108153674, alternate version: ISBN 0-19-200008-X, OCLC 25885092, OCLC 59162245.
  2. New Bishop Of Mashonaland The Times Friday, Nov 04, 1910; pg. 13; Issue 39421; col B
  3. “Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  4. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
  5. “Church and Settler in Colonial Zimbabwe: A Study in the History of the Anglican Diocese of Mashonaland/Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1925, Vol. 34” Welsh, P(Ed): Boston, Brill Academic Publishing, 2008 ISBN 978-90-04-16746-9
  6. Deaths- Rt Rev F.H. Beaven The Times Friday, Jan 24, 1941; pg. 1; Issue 48832; col A
Religious titles
Preceded by
Cecil William Alderson
Bishop of Mashonaland
19111925
Succeeded by
Edward Francis Paget