Henry Brougham Bousfield (27 March 1832 – 10 February 1902) was a

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priest and the inaugural

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1878-1902.

Life

Bousfield was born on 27 March 1832, the son of William Cheek Bousfield, a barrister. He was educated at

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and

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(whence he gained his

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in 1856, his first post was as a

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at All Saints,

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. From 1861 to 1870 he was

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of St Maurice

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, then

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from 1870 to 1878. He became the inaugural

in 1878 holding the post until his death on 10 February 1902. He was instrumental in promoting the Anglican church in what is today the

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and the

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. At the urging of local congregants in

Pietersburg Polokwane (, meaning "Sanctuary" in Northern SothoPolokwane - The Heart of the Limpopo Province ...

(now renamed

Polokwane Polokwane (, meaning "Sanctuary" in Northern SothoPolokwane - The Heart of the Limpopo Province ...

) he sent Christ Church their first rector, A. Weinstein, in 1895. Christ Church became a centre of mission work into the northern region of the Anglican Diocese of Pretoria. At some point he had become a

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(DD).

Works

* * ''Notes for Catechising''

Family

Bousfield married, in 1861, Charlotte Elizabeth Higginson, daughter of Jonathan Higginson, of Rock Ferry, Liverpool. She died in 1886, and he remarried, in 1888, Ellen Lamb, daughter of Thomas Lamb, of Andover.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bousfield, Henry Brougham 1832 births People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 19th-century Anglican Church of Southern Africa bishops 20th-century Anglican Church of Southern Africa bishops Anglican bishops of Pretoria 1902 deaths