Reverend William Tutty (c. 1715 – 24 November 1754) was an English-Canadian clergyman. Ordained in the
Church of England
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, he moved to Canada in 1749 as a missionary for
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland".
Most of the population are native Eng ...
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Life
Tutty was educated at
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
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, and ordained priest in 1748. He travelled to Nova Scotia with Governor
Edward Cornwallis
Edward Cornwallis ( – 14 January 1776) was a British career military officer and was a member of the aristocratic Cornwallis family, who reached the rank of Lieutenant General. After Cornwallis fought in Scotland, putting down the Jacobi ...
as a missionary on behalf of the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
United Society Partners in the Gospel (USPG) is a United Kingdom-based charitable organization (registered charity no. 234518).
It was first incorporated under Royal Charter in 1701 as the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Part ...
, arriving in
Halifax on June 21, 1749.
Reverend Tutty opened
St. Paul's Church in Halifax on September 2, 1750,
and was the first minister (1750–54).
He returned to England and worked, died and was buried at
All Saints' Church, Hertford
All Saints' Church is in Queens Road, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Hertford and Ware, the archdeaconry of Hertford, and the diocese of St Albans. It is the civic church of the town ...
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References
Other reading
Historical notices of the missions of the Church of England in the North American colonies previous to the independence of the United States: chiefly from the ms. documents of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign PartsSociety for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts - Nova Scotia
1715 births
1754 deaths
18th-century English Anglican priests
English Anglican missionaries
Anglican missionaries in Canada
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