John Walmsley (bishop)

John Walmsley (14 October 1867, in Hereford – 9 December 1922, in Freetown)[1] was an English Anglican missionary bishop for the Anglican Diocese of Sierra Leone in the early twentieth century, from 1910 to his death in 1922.[2]

Walmsley was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford.[3] and ordained in 1890.[4] After a curacy at Stokenham he was Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford from 1894 to 1898.[5] He held incumbencies at St Giles, Normanton-by-Derby and St Ann, Nottingham.[6]

Walmsley served as Bishop of Sierra Leone from 1910 until his death.[7]

References
  1. 'Deaths' The Times Wednesday, Dec. 13, 1922 Issue 43213 p.1
  2. Project Canterbury
  3. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Walmsley, John" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p1485: London; Horace Cox; 1908
  5. Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 1370.
  6. "Walmsley, John". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 15 December 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. "Bishop Walmsley, 1910-1922". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 2024-01-31.

Anglican History website John Walmsley Ninth Bishop of Sierra Leone: A Memoir for his Friends, arranged by E. G. Walmsley (1923) (online copy)


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