Augustine Scriven (185221 July 1916) was an eminent

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priest in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth. He was born in

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, Sambourne,

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and educated at

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and

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in 1875. After

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at Kirkham and

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he held incumbencies at Martinhoe and St Peter,

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. In 1884 he became

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a post he held until his appointment to the

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in 1915.

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, Friday, 6 August 1915; p. 13; Issue 40926; col G ''New Bishop of British Columbia''

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1852 births People from Stratford-on-Avon District Alumni of St Mary Hall, Oxford Anglican archdeacons in North America Anglican bishops of British Columbia 20th-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops 1916 deaths {{Canada-Anglican-bishop-stub