John Garraway Holmes (died September 1904 in
Worthing,
West Sussex) was an
Anglican
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bishop. He was buried at
Broadwater Cemetery in Worthing.
Education
He graduated from
University College, Oxford in 1862 and was ordained priest in 1864 by the
Bishop of Peterborough. He was a curate at Christ Church, Reading from 1866–1869 and St. Mark's Church, Reigate from 1869–1870 and St. Mary Magdalene, Wandsworth Common from 1870 - 1883.
Career
He was appointed
vicar of St. Philip's Church, Sydenham in 1883 - 1889. In 1888 he was elected to the
London School Board
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The Elementary Education Act 1870 was the first to provide for ...
representing
Greenwich as a member of the "Church Party".
He resigned from the board in the following year.
He was
dean of
Grahamstown,
South Africa and
rector
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*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
of the
St. Michael and St. George Cathedral from 1889–1899 and was also
archdeacon
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from 1895.
In July 1899 he was consecrated in
St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town as third
bishop of St Helena
The Diocese of Saint Helena is an Anglican diocese within the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. It covers the islands of Saint Helena and Ascension in the Atlantic Ocean and was created in 1859. St Paul's Cathedral is on Saint Helena.
Histor ...
.
He received an honorary
doctorate of Divinity (DD) from the
University of Oxford in June 1901.
References
External links
Worthing Cemetery
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Alumni of University College, Oxford
Anglican bishops of St Helena
1904 deaths
Members of the London School Board
Year of birth missing
Anglican archdeacons in Africa
Deans of Grahamstown