Augustus Smith (priest)

Augustus Elder Smith (1844-1916) was an Anglican priest who served in two senior leadership positions within the Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.[1]

Smith was educated at Codrington College, Barbados and ordained in 1868. After a curacy at St Silas, Barbados he was Rector and Dean of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Port of Spain;[2] and Archdeacon of Trinidad from 1902 until 1914.

He died on January 8, 1916 at West Kensington.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ ‘SMITH, Ven. Augustus Elder’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 18 Feb 2014
  2. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p1315 London, Horace Cox, 1908
  3. ↑ “Deaths” The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Jan 11, 1916; pg. 1; Issue 41060


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