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, Bishop of Bath and Wells, at Wells Cathedral. After a curacy at St Michael's Shepton Beauchamp he went to Tanzania as a missionary. He was later the provost and

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of Masasi Collegiate Church and a canon of Zanzibar before his ordination to the episcopate. He was consecrated a bishop on Michaelmas (29 September) 1926, by

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, at Westminster Abbey. He died on 8 July 1945. The Times, 10 July 1945, p1, "Deaths"

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1883 births People educated at Rossall School Alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford English Anglican missionaries Provosts of the Anglican Church of Tanzania 20th-century Anglican bishops in Tanzania Anglican bishops of Masasi 1945 deaths Anglican missionaries in Tanzania {{Africa-Anglican-bishop-stub