Edward Wyndham Tufnell (3 October 1814 – 3 December 1896) was an Anglican priest. He was the first

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in Queensland, Australia.

Early life

Tufnell was born on 3 October 1814 in

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and educated at

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and Wadham College, Oxford. He was the son of a banker, John Charles Tufnell, and Uliana Ivanova Margaret Fowell, who had a total of eighteen children.

Ecclesiastical career

Ordained a priest in 1839, his first posts were curacies at

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and Broad Hinton. After this he held incumbencies at Beechingstoke and

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. He served as Anglican Bishop of Brisbane from 1859 to 1874. StateLibQld 1 112368 Front view of Riversleigh, North Quay, Brisbane, ca

While in Brisbane in 1863, Edward Tufnell commissioned architect

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to build the house ''Riversleigh'' on North Quay as an investment. Tufnell returned to England in 1874. In 1882 he became the vicar of Felpham near Bognor Regis and in 1888 he paid for the school to move to a new site in Felpham Way. The school is still named after him, but moved again in 1957. The rector's vestry at St Mary's Church was erected in 1899 as a memorial to him.

Marriage and family

Tufnell married his cousin, Laura Tufnell, who was the daughter of John Jolliffe Tufnell of Langleys, Great Waltham, Essex. They had two children: Arthur Wyndam Tufnell, who was murdered in India while travelling on a train to Simla; and Ida Mary Uliana Mary Tufnell, who married Henry Arthur Wansbrough, a priest. Ida was the grandmother of the Benedictine monk and scholar, Dom Henry Wansbrough. Laura Tufnell was the sister of Maria Tufnell, who married Edward Strutt, founder of Strutt & Parker estate agents. Maria was lady-in-waiting to Queen Charlotte. Tufnell died on 3 December 1896. The Times, Friday, 4 December 1896; pg. 6; Issue 35065; col D ''Obituary E.W. Tufnell DD''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tufnell, Edward Wyndham 1814 births People from Bath, Somerset People educated at Eton College Anglican bishops of Brisbane 19th-century Anglican bishops in Australia 1896 deaths Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford People from Felpham