Frederick Courtney (5 January 1837 – 29 December 1918) was an eminent Anglican

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, the fifth Bishop of Nova Scotia.

Life and career

Born in Plymouth into an ecclesiastical family — his father was Septimus Courtney, vicar of Charles Chapel —, he was educated at King's College London and ordained in 1864. His first post was a

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at Hadlow,

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after which he was the

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of Charles Chapel, Plymouth (which became St Luke's) until 1870 and then St Jude's, Glasgow until 1876 when he emigrated to North America. He was an Assistant at St Thomas's,

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until 1880 then

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of St James's, Chicago. His last post before appointment to the

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was at St Paul's, Boston. After he retired as Bishop of Nova Scotia in 1904, he returned to New York to serve as

of St James' Church on Madison Avenue, a position from which he retired in 1915. He died in New York on 29 December 1918.NY Times
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References

1837 births 1918 deaths Alumni of King's College London Anglican bishops of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island 19th-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops 20th-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub