Henry Bousfield

The Rt Revd
Henry Bousfield
DD
Bishop of Pretoria
Church Anglican
Province Southern Africa
Diocese Pretoria
Orders
Ordination 1856
by Bishop of Winchester
Consecration 1878
Personal details
Born March 27, 1832
Died February 10, 1902 (aged 69)

The Rt Rev Henry Brougham Bousfield, DD, MA[1] (27 March 1832 – 10 February 1902) was a Colonial Anglican priest and the inaugural Bishop of Pretoria 1878-1902.[2][3]

Life

Bousfield was born on 27 March 1832, the son of William Cheek Bousfield, a barrister. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.[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.[6][7]

He became the inaugural Bishop of Pretoria in 1878[8] holding the post until his death on 10 February 1902.[9][10] 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

Family

Bousfield married, in 1861, Charlotte Elizabeth Higginson, daughter of Jonathan Higginson, of Rock Ferry, Liverpool. She died in 1886, and he re-married, in 1888, Ellen Lamb, daughter of Thomas Lamb, of Andover.[9]

Notes

  1. ↑ The Times, Monday, Jul 05, 1858; pg. 5; Issue 22890; col B University Intelligence. Cambridge, July 3
  2. ↑ Wits Papers
  3. ↑ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  4. ↑ "Bousfield, Henry Brougham (BSFT851HB)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ↑ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889"
  6. ↑ "Preferments and Appointments". Oxford Times. 14 May 1870. Retrieved 2014-09-17 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑  Buckland, Augustus Robert (1912). "Bousfield, Henry Brougham". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement​. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  8. ↑ "Andover, Sept. 26.". Hampshire Advertiser. 26 September 1877. p. 3 col E. Retrieved 2014-09-17 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 The Times, Tuesday, Feb 11, 1902; pg. 10; Issue 36688; col E Obituary - The Bishop Of Pretoria
  10. ↑ "Death of Bishop of Pretoria". Evening Telegraph. 12 February 1902. p. 4 col D. Retrieved 2014-09-17 – via British Newspaper Archive.

External links

Portraits of Henry Brougham Bousfield at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Anglican Church of Southern Africa titles
New diocese Bishop of Pretoria
1878– 1902 		Succeeded by
William Carter