John Wills Weeks (1799-1857) was the

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Bishop of Sierra Leone The Anglican Diocese of Sierra Leone was founded in 1852. Bishops of Sierra Leone * 1852–1854 Owen Vidal (1st bishop, died at sea, 1854) * 1855–1857 John Weeks (died in office of "African Sickness") * 1857–1860 John Bowen (died in offic ...

from 1855 until his death in Sierra Leone two years later. John Weeks was born in

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in 1799. A

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in Sierra Leone from 1825 to 1844 when ill-health caused his return to England, he became

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of St Thomas's Church and headmaster of Cranbrook School,

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until his appointment to the

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. He became a

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(DD). On 7 December 1826, Weeks married his first wife Anna Pope, née Haynes, widow of John Pope, a missionary who died after only 6 months of service in Sierra Leone. She predeceased him 10 January 1839. His second wife Phoebe Graham, née Davey, née Goodwin, from

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, widow of Henry Graham, died in 1866 and was buried in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Weeks, John Year of birth unknown 19th-century Anglican bishops in Sierra Leone English Anglican missionaries Anglican missionaries in Sierra Leone Anglican bishops of Sierra Leone 1799 births 1857 deaths People from Dartmouth, Devon