George Horsfall Frodsham (1863–1937) was an English-born
Anglican
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priest. From 1902 to 1913 he was the
Bishop of North Queensland in Australia.
Early life
Frodsham was born in
Sale Moor,
Cheshire
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, England on 14 September 1863, the son of James Frodsham and his wife Jane (née Horsfall). He was educated at
Birkenhead School
Birkenhead School is an independent, academically-selective, co-educational day school located in Oxton, Wirral, in North West England. The school offers educational opportunities for girls and boys from three months to eighteen years of age. ...
and
University College, Durham
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.
Religious life
Frodsham trained for ordination at
St Aidan's College, Birkenhead and was ordained both deacon and priest in 1889. His first positions were
curacies
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at St Thomas'
Leeds
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and St Margaret's
Ilkley
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.
From 1896 he was
Rector
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Style or title
*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
of
St Thomas’ in
Toowong
Toowong is a riverside suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Toowong had a population of 10,830 people.
Geography
Toowong is situated between Mount Coot-tha and the Brisbane River and is made up of rolling hills w ...
,
Brisbane
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, Queensland and then
chaplain
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to the
Bishop of Brisbane. In 1902 it was announced that he would become
Bishop of North Queensland, and he was consecrated as such on 17 August 1902 at
St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney
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, by Archbishop
Saumarez Smith
William Saumarez Smith (known as Saumarez;
K. J. Cable,Smith, William Saumarez (1836 - 1909), '' Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Vol. 11, MUP, 1988, pp 675-677.
14 January 1836 – 18 April 1909) was an Anglican Archbishop of Sydney ...
. He served as bishop until 1913.
Frodsham served as a military chaplain from 1899 to 1910, and later again in 1922, the senior chaplain to the Northern Command of the British Army.
Whilst in Townsville, he was passionate in founding an
Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine facility.
On his return to
England
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he was a
canon residentiary
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Originally, a canon was a cleric living with others in a clergy house or, later, i ...
at
Gloucester Cathedral
Gloucester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity, in Gloucester, England, stands in the north of the city near the River Severn. It originated with the establishment of a minster dedicated to S ...
. In 1920 he became
vicar
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of
Halifax,
West Yorkshire
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, a position he held until his death.
[''Bishop Frodsham Work In Australia And At Home'' ]The Times
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Monday, 8 March 1937; pg. 16; Issue 47627; col D
Later life
Frodsham died in
Halifax on 6 March 1937.
References
External links
1863 births
Clergy from Cheshire
People educated at Birkenhead School
Alumni of University College, Durham
Alumni of St Aidans College Birkenhead
Anglican bishops of North Queensland
1937 deaths
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